Monday, April 12, 2004

KERRY AND 'WAFFLES' HITS USA TODAY
Kudos to Ken Jacobson... Hilarious and Truthful Exercise


If you remember my prior post on Esoteric-Diatribe's site, it was a prank to Google-Bomb John Kerry's campaign so that "waffles" brings up his campaign site each time someone searches for "waffles." Well, it got press today in USA Today:

Kerry gets served up with 'waffles'

By Mark Memmott
USA TODAY

April 11, 2004

Some jokers who don't like the Democratic presidential candidate are trying to make his campaign Web site, johnkerry.com, the first answer to a search of the word "waffles" on Google, the No. 1 Internet search engine.

They've nearly succeeded on the No. 2 search engine, Yahoo. By Sunday, eight days after the prank began, johnkerry.com was listed second among 703,000 results of a Yahoo search of the word "waffles." (full article)

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