President Obama Googlebombed as 'failure'

A few years ago, online Bush bashers ganged up to link the term "miserable failure" from their blogs to the 43rd president's home page. As a result, a Google search for "miserable failure" returned the White House's Web site as top result.

Today, though, it's President Obama who has been targeted for the search term "failure" at Google and "miserable failure" at Yahoo. Search Engine Land editor Danny Sullivan says he tried to warn Obama's staff through several channels but was ignored.

That's probably the right response. But here in San Francisco, there's an obvious unanswered question: Is this the work of Republican bloggers, or was it our local left-of-left progressives unhappy with "Barry O.'s" lack of support for medical marijuana and rent control?