"First theyignore you, then theylaughat you, then they fight you, then you win.”
– Mohandas K. Gandhi.
Dan Savage, a gay,
liberal blogger who went to war with Rick Santorum on the internets, has reached
the “fight you” stage of Gandhi’s axiom.
As I’m sure you are
aware by now, Savage took to a novel battle field to combat what he believed
was prejudice against homosexuals emanating from former Pennsylvania Senator
and presidential candidate Rick Santorum—the internet. He reinvented Santorum’s
last name to mean something, well, quite different.
It shall not be reproduced
here, feel free to click on this
link for a simple Google search of the word “Santorum.”
Some, especially Rick
Santorum, believe that Google’s placement of the Savage search return over Rick
Santorum’s own material is unfair and evidence of how you can game a search
engine into disseminating counter-factual information. What has become known as
Santorum’s “Google Problem,” is also a Bing
and Yahoo problem, but to lesser degrees.
Should Google intervene to bring
Savage’s definition down and Santorum’s up? Google disagrees, but many feel
they should. What do you think? Is this online guerrilla warfare acceptable? Is
this even Santorum’s problem or is this an SEO problem originating from
Santorum’s shop.
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