It's not that hard to do, so it's not that hard to counteract.  And it's not that hard to set up an Obama-bomb either.

I have no idea how much play this will get, but if I knew nothing of either candidate, it would not make me lean toward the one whose supporters were doing it.  Some folks are lucky that there's no maturity test for voting.

PageRank Explained

PageRank relies on the uniquely democratic nature of the web by using its vast link structure as an indicator of an individual page's value. In essence, Google interprets a link from page A to page B as a vote, by page A, for page B. But, Google looks at considerably more than the sheer volume of votes, or links a page receives; for example, it also analyzes the page that casts the vote. Votes cast by pages that are themselves "important" weigh more heavily and help to make other pages "important." Using these and other factors, Google provides its views on pages' relative importance.

Of course, important pages mean nothing to you if they don't match your query. So, Google combines PageRank with sophisticated text-matching techniques to find pages that are both important and relevant to your search. Google goes far beyond the number of times a term appears on a page and examines dozens of aspects of the page's content (and the content of the pages linking to it) to determine if it's a good match for your query.

If you are competent at searches, you'll know how to make your search parameters as specific and unique as possible.  I'm not always successful on the first try, but I do know how to use the "not(x,y,z)" parameters to weed unwanted results out.

If you know what you are searching for, you won't waste time on clearly unwanted results.

Although I had long ago vetted that story and found many articles that summed it up as pure crapola, I was stunned to now find the top 10 google searches all led to kos tpm huff etc. stories on how it was under investigation and the Clinton's would fry any day now.

Even the wiki page on Paul was temporarily overrided and altered to show him as a saint who would finally out the evil clinton's for having Cher appear for a fundraiser...

Paul's video was a huge hit too.  You tube is highly manipulated and always has been by OB.

So stuff him, in the old fashioned sense of the word.  And all his hype professed as hope.

It will of course be used again and again as it always has been by the paid blogger army.

Delete my comment above if it doesn't fit your movement.  It was just one of the seemingly endless schemes that swayed public opinion.

Strong arm Chicago Tactics 101, he is a pro.

The problem, of course, is that A-list bloggers have zero (let me repeat, zero) credibility.  I mean, these are the guys who spent months demonizing Hillary, and we all know that most of what they wrote, or at least encouraged, was garbage.  So, now they come along and demonize John McCain.  For all I know, some or most of what they write or link to (or get atop a google search list) is accurate.  But now, as a thinking person, I have to be highly skeptical of it, because I know these people have absolutely no regard for the truth.

I came to believe Clinton would fight.

Obama is a huge disappointment, especially after observing the actions of his congressional supporters.

You wouldn't have to keep defending Obama on a liberal blog if he were a great candidate that we could all support.

You can look at that six ways from Sunday, and it's not going to change.

The internet are about easier access to information and as such has the potential to change the information asymmetry in our society (think of the information you wished you could have looked up easily at 18 or 20, or before buying a house, or planning for retirement).  Whether lowering the cost/opportunity cost of access to health care, product reviews, or political information it all changes the game.

But players/bureaucracies/systems resist change, they resist to protect their market, their culture, their organization.  Frequently, folks resist because deviation from the norm requires work.  So current players and people indoctrinated with certain ways of knowing/understanding the world have a vested personal and or economic interest in managing search results and framing information.  For 90% of the population, google bombing either succeeds (and thereby usually mis-informs) or fails and leaves people with a poor search experience--driving them back to accepted sources.

Oh wait!  Now you, who appear not to be a real Democrat, are here spouting nonsense about McCain (or "McSame" as you call him).  It appears to be SOP to accuse our ex-war heros of war crimes now.  

Wes Clark: McCain Doesn't Have the Right Kind of Military Experience To Be Commander-in-Chief

He's a great man and an honorable man. But having served as a fighter pilot -- and I know my experience as a company commander in Vietnam -- that doesn't prepare you to be commander-in-chief in terms of dealing with the national strategic issues that are involved. It may give you a feeling for what the troops are going through in the process, but it doesn't give you the experience first hand of the national strategic issues.

If you look at what Hillary Clinton has done during her time as the First Lady of the United States, her travel to 80 countries, her representing the U.S. abroad, plus her years in the Senate, I think she's the most experienced and capable person in the race, not only for representing am abroad, but for dealing with the tough issues of national security.

Well, okay!  But Obama was never First Lady of the United States, travelling to 80 countries.  So, can you point me to the link that says Obama is the greatest now?  

I'm disgusted, disappointed, and depressed watching the machinations of these so-called democrats.

Oh well.  I should just sit back and enjoy the circus. If things weren't so effed up after Bush, I might be able to do that.

What has happened to people?

But the gist of this thread is

1. Some Obama people are google bombing
   
2. Google bombing sound malevolent
   
3. Therefore Obama is malevolent

Bomb Bomb Bomb,
Bomb Bomb Iran....

Obama should put an immediate end to this kind of shenanigans (did I spell that right?).  Obama has always said he wants to run a different kind of campaign but, unfortunately, his surrogates didn't quite receive the message, specifically when it first came to attacking Hillary, now McCain.