Google Bomb Update 11/3, automated edition

by aip, Fri Nov 03, 2006 at 08:51:16 AM EST

Looking at the data, I see that several of the linked articles are now surpassing the official re-election websites of the target - woo hoo!  Wiki links still seem to have no effect, though.

I'm now using some Perl code to get the rankings through the google API, so my results differ slightly from Lucas O'Conner's updates.  I think automated results tracking is the wave of the future, and would allow us to track, say, a dozen articles per candidate, without these updates taking lots of our useful time.

My program also displays all URLs from the target site in the top 100 to help identify slight URL changes, giving us just a little bigger window into the world of Google.

Note: this just reporting what the Google API returned, which seems pretty funky sometimes.  Sometimes it misses links entirely (probably during an update).  Sometimes it lists the exact same article twice.  And many times, the same article is listed many times, but with a slightly different URL.

AZ-sen: Jon Kyl is currently   6
        another site match:  34 - http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/Issues/20 06-04-13/news/feature.html
AZ-01: Rick Renzi  is not in the top 100
        another site match:   3 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Renzi
AZ-02: J.D Hayworth is currently   7
CA-04: John Doolittle is currently   2
        another site match:  54 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_T._Doo little
CA-11: Richard Pombo is currently   5
        another site match:  39 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_W._ Pombo
CA-50: Brian Bilbray is currently   4
CO-04: Marilyn Musgrave is currently   5
CO-05: Doug Lamborn is currently   3
        another site match:   2 - http://www.gazette.com/display.php?id=13 22626&secid=1
        another site match:  11 - http://www.gazette.com/display.php?id=13 22626&secid=1
        another site match:  12 - http://www.gazette.com/display.php?id=13 22626
        another site match:  22 - http://www.gazette.com/display.php?id=13 22626&secid=1
        another site match:  52 - http://www.gazette.com/display.php?id=13 22626&secid=1
CO-07: Rick O'Donnell is currently   6
CT-04: Christopher Shays is currently   7
        another site match:  86 - http://www.connpost.com/news/ci_4509764
FL-13: Vernon Buchanan is currently   4
        another site match:   3 - http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/n ews/local/15422371.htm?source=rss&ch annel=bradenton_local
        another site match:   5 - http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/n ews/local/15422371.htm?source=rss&ch annel=bradento%20n_local
        another site match:   6 - http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/n ews/local/15422371.htm?source=rss&am p;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;channel=br adenton_local
        another site match:   7 - http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/n ews/local/15422371.htm?source=rss
FL-16: Joe Negron is currently   4
        another site match:   5 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Negron
FL-22-01: clay Shaw is currently   7
ID-01: Bill Sali is not in the top 100
IL-06: Peter Roskam is currently   9
IL-10: Mark Kirk  is not in the top 100
IL-14: Dennis Hastert is currently  44
        another site match:  76 - http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,1970 71,00.html
IN-02: Chris Chocola is currently   3
        another site match:  79 - http://www.southbendtribune.com/apps/pbc s.dll/article?AID=/20060811/NEWS07/60811 031
IN-08: John Hostettler is currently   5
IA-01: Mike Whalen is currently   4
        another site match:   3 - http://www.qctimes.net/articles/2005/12/ 09/news/local/doc439930283db6c088625962. txt
KS-02: Jim Ryun is currently   6
        another site match:  14 - http://www.cjonline.com/stories/102306/l oc_ryunboyda1.shtml
KY-03: Anne Northup is currently   5
KY-04: Geoff Davis is currently   7
MD-Sen: Michael Steele is currently   3
MN-01: Gil Gutknecht  is not in the top 100
MN-06: Michele Bachmann is currently 4
MO-Sen: Jim Talent is currently 18
MT-Sen: Conrad Burns is currently  32
NV-03: Jon Porter  is not in the top 100
        another site match:   3 - http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/storie s/sun/2006/oct/22/566689009.html?porter
        another site match:  36 - http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/storie s/sun/2006/oct/22/566689009.html
NH-02: Charlie Bass is currently  18
NJ-07: Mike Ferguson is currently   7
        another site match:  35 - http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn ?pagename=article&contentId=A23714-2 003Apr3&notFound=true
NM-01: Heather Wilson is currently 4
NY-03: Peter King  is not in the top 100
NY-20: John Sweeney is currently   2 (and 73)
        another site match:   2 - http://blogs.timesunion.com/capitol/?p=9 83
NY-26: Tom Reynolds is currently   7
NY-29: Randy Kuhl is currently   5
        another site match:  35 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_R._%22 Randy%22_Kuhl
        another site match:  36 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_R._%22 Randy%22_Kuhl,Jr.
NC-08: Robin Hayes is currently   4
NC-11: Charles Taylor is currently   3
        another site match:   1 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Tay lor
        another site match:   2 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Tay lor(philosopher)
        another site match:  20 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Tay lor_(UK_politician)
        another site match:  57 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Car roll_Taylor
        another site match:  61 - http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Tay lor
        another site match:  78 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_G._ Taylor
        another site match:  94 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Stu art_Taylor
OH-01: Steve Chabot is currently   5
OH-15: Deborah Pryce is currently   5
OH-18: Joy Padgett is not in the top 100
        another site match:   3 - http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindeale r/index.ssf?/base/news/1161257895268090. xml
        another site match:  11 - http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindeale r/index.ssf?/base/news/1161257895268090. xml&coll=2
        another site match:  47 - http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindeale r/index.ssf?/base/news/1132050763295410. xml&coll=2
PA-04: Melissa Hart is currently   6
PA-07: Curt Weldon is currently   6
PA-08: Mike Fitzpatrick is currently   6
PA-10: Don Sherwood is currently   4
RI-Sen: Lincoln Chafee is currently   6
TN-Sen: Bob Corker  is not in the top 100
VA-Sen: George Allen  is not in the top 100
        another site match:   6 - http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/09/2 6/politics/main2039589.shtml
VA-10: Frank Wolf  is not in the top 100
WA-Sen: Mike McGavick is currently   5
        another site match:  11 - http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/2825 91_mcgavick25.html
        another site match:  26 - http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/jamieson/2 83645_robert02.html
        another site match:  27 - http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/2859 30_senate21.html
        another site match:  45 - http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/2797 42_mcgavick02.html
WA-08: Dave Reichert is currently   5




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Re: Google Bomb Update 11/3 (none / 0)

FWIW, I thought this'd just take an hour to code - as long as the update I did took to do manually - but it ended up taking a couple hours because Google API calls fail about 75% of the time.  Seems like everyone has that issue, and I just had to code around by retrying up to 20 times.  TMI, I'm sure, but it seems to be working well now, and outputs HTML that doesn't need massaging.


end the occupation of Iraq
by aip on Fri Nov 03, 2006 at 08:54:58 AM EST


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