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OTB has the dubious distinction of being the #1 Google result for search string that I’ll not retype here.

Sheesh. Who are these people?

About the Author: James Joyner is the publisher of Outside the Beltway and the managing editor of the Atlantic Council. He's a former Army officer, Desert Storm vet, and college professor with a PhD in political science from The University of Alabama. He lives just outside the Beltway in Alexandria, Virginia with his wife and infant daughter.

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You do get some pretty bizarre hits from Google at times. I'm kinda partial to the string below.

(evil rat bastard senator from massachusetts)

Posted by Rodney Dill | October 3, 2005 | 11:19 am | Permalink
 

So Bill Bennett is a reader?

Posted by The Man | October 3, 2005 | 11:48 am | Permalink
 

Good lord, who would ever link to your site with that text? That's the only way to get to the top of a Google Search. Anyone remember the Jewgle bomb? Someone did a huge Googlebomb on the word "jew" so that any time anyone searched for it, a anti-semetic hate site would be at the top of the list.

Same situation here apparently.

Posted by Larry | October 3, 2005 | 12:02 pm | Permalink
 

This doesn't mean that someone linked to you with that phrase. for one, the search isn't quoted, so it's not a search for a phrase. A search for nagin ray n***er will return the same result. Searching for the phrase "ray nagin is a n***er" (with the quotes) returns no results.

The OTB page merely contains the 3 words "ray" and "nagin" and "n***er" and OTB has high Google ranking.

Posted by Mark Jaquith | October 3, 2005 | 12:17 pm | Permalink
 

Deleted scene from Blazing Saddles.

"The Sheriff is a n---"

"What did he say?"

"I think he said, 'the Sherriff is a nagin.'"

Posted by Rusty Shackleford | October 3, 2005 | 02:42 pm | Permalink
 

Funny, Rusty.

Now excuse me while I whip ths out!

Posted by Mark | October 3, 2005 | 04:01 pm | Permalink
 

It's OK, James.
I caught a half-dozen hits today from a search engine that some webmaster installed in his site called MENOPAUSE.COM. Apparently, the thing triggered on one of my header lines: "Guaranteed to raise liberal blood pressure".

Funny part is one of them was a repeat visit from the same computer, 8 hours later. (SHrug)
A new readers, a new reader and I'll take em any way I can get 'em.

Posted by Bithead | October 3, 2005 | 08:49 pm | Permalink
 

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