Maybe Bush's problem was just that he used Google.....

[qatarperegrine]

I was just trying to look up something about Iraq's nuclear program in the '80s, so I Googled Iraq nuclear history.

Try it.

I often appreciate that Google searches for variants on the words we input -- that if I search for tutor conference, for example, I also get webpages that talk about tutoring conferences. But someone really needs to tell them that Iraq and Iran are not synonyms!

Update, 30 January: woot, they fixed it!

Comments

[gryphonwing.livejournal.com]

Ooooh, yes. That one's a bit worrying!

Bush

[shmuelisms.livejournal.com]

To quote Bush himself, he uses The Google. But yeah, WTF are those results supposed to mean?

Yet more proof that automatic heuristics ain't everything (like the 3rd result for 'Jew' is some neonazi bozo's site. It used to be 1st).

[roach2600.livejournal.com]

FYI, try "+iraq nuclear history".

[aristopheles.livejournal.com]

Psychologically speaking I think that typing "Iran" when you mean "Iraq" -- or vice versa -- is actually a pretty natural mistake, at least for people who do searches on "nuclear history".
I've noticed I type the wrong word much more often these days. I never imagined it would start so soon.