The political bloggers using a technique known as "Google bombing" to gain the support of other bloggers to raise the ranking of search engines for 9 most recent story that describes the ugliness of the Republican presidential candidate, John McCain.

Chris Bowers, Managing Editor of The Progressive Blog OpenLeft, launches "Google Boms" that drives the bloggers include Web links about the nine most recent stories about McChain in their blog, it helps to improve their ranking in Google search results.

Between the date of June 6 to 19, the first of the campaign stories about the bad image McChain Bowers was in 9 top search results on Google with keywords "John McCain", while the second story ranks 16 out of search results with the same word. Meanwhile, the McCain campaign has no comment from the Bowers project.

Bowers said that he worked alone and did not have a relationship with the Democratic candidate, Barack Obama. He also said that using Google as a search engine is the most commonly used by voters during the 2004 election. Bowers chose a new article based on the latest issue, which makes the choice to cancel voters over McCain. "We only use the words of McCain himself, all of which we select are all the things McCain has done or he has to say. There is no prejudice at all. There is also no opinion. These are excerpts from McChain own. In fact this is manipulation, but the search engines is not a public forum, but this is about how you use it for personal gain from the information obtained in it ", as in the said Bowers.

Julie Barko Germany, director of The Institute of Politics, Democracy and the Internet at George Washington University, said not only can use the method of Bowers, but Bowers was the first he knew using that method. "Google bombing" is a very interesting strategy to distribute positive articles or negatively to attract public attention.

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