Lucas, are you using GoogleRankings.com to get this data? If not, I recommend it - it's much faster, and you get rankings from msn.com and yahoo.com, which are also getting bombed (but "search engine bomb" doesn't have quite the same ring to it).
You do have to sign up for an API license key, but it's worth it. I just found it today, and it's really cool!
Here are the generated results for Dennis Hastert, acquired by typing in "dennis hastert" for search terms, and foxnews.com as the site. Note that the rankings disagree with yours, as it includes secondary links, but I think that's the more accurate way to do it anyway. Also, note the "number of backlinks" - you can track progress of the bomb using it.
Position: 44 FOXNews.com - Internal Poll Suggests Hastert Could Devastate GOP ... Internal Poll Suggests Hastert Could Devastate GOP, House Republican candidates will suffer massive losses if House Speaker Dennis Hastert remains speaker ... Check Google<sup>TM</sup> Page Rank Number of Backlinks: 79400 (Check Google<sup>TM</sup>)
Time: 4.20 seconds Querying MSN. Please be patient...
Position: 60 FOXNews.com - What House Speaker Dennis Hastert Thinks Is Behind ABC ... Political Grapevine: What House Speaker Dennis Hastert Thinks Is Behind ABC Report, What House ... What House Speaker Dennis Hastert Thinks Is Behind ABC Report. Thursday, May 25, 2006 Check MSN<sup>TM</sup> Time: 13.24 seconds Querying Yahoo. Please be patient...
Position: 19 FOXNews.com - Internal Poll Suggests Hastert Could Devastate GOP - Politics | Republican Party | Democratic Party | ... ... losses if House Speaker Dennis Hastert remains speaker until Election Day, ... 2: House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., left, and Rep. John Shimkus, R-Ill. ... Check Yahoo<sup>TM</sup> Time: 1.46 seconds
Next election, someone (possibly me, I've done lots of Perl) should write some code to do automated tracking.
Aw, heck, I just went and wrote some code to do it, will post an update as soon as it finishes running.
