Old-fashioned get-out-the-vote efforts are fine, says Daily Kos, but tech-savvy smear campaigns are ...

1. The Nutroots Are Planning to Flood the 'Net with
Disinformation
Old-fashioned get-out-the-vote efforts are fine, says Daily Kos, but tech-savvy smear campaigns are a
lot more fun.
The liberal blog is inviting its readers to "make a big difference in 2010" by taking part in a "very
different, but still very important, form of seo election activism."
It's called grassroots-based search-engine optimization, or Grassroots SEO. It's also known as
Googlebombing, and the goal is to try to influence undecided voters by overloading search-engine
results with negative news articles about Republican candidates in competitive districts. The more
people are clicking on links to http://searchengineland.com/guide/what-is-seo these articles, the
higher they'll appear in Google searches, and (as one can imagine where this train of thought
continues) the more mindless boobs will read the articles, and proceed to march zombie-like to the
polls to vote for the Democrats.
Kos claims to have reached more than 700,000 in 50 congressional districts as part of a similar
Grassroots SEO campaign in 2006.