French ruling party having a riot on the Internet

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

Although I don't envy French citizens situation these past
two weeks, this news tidbit is rather interesting.

An AFP newswire article, via Yahoo! News, reports that:

[snip]

Although struggling with worsening urban violence, President Jacques Chirac's ruling conservative party found the time 
to make sure it came out on top in Internet searches on the rioting.

The French version of Google returned a sponsored link to www.u-m-p.org, the home page for Chirac's Union for a Popular 
Majority (UMP), when users typed "riots" and "Paris" (or the French words for riots and suburb, "emeutes" and 
"banlieue") into the search field.

The link disappeared later Monday, however, after French media discovered it and reported on it.

[snip]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20051107/tc_afp/franceriotsinternetpolitics

Also, a rather interesting article in The Chicago Sun-Times has
attracted a lot of attention: "Wake up, Europe, you've a war on
your hands":

http://www.suntimes.com/output/steyn/cst-edt-steyn06.html

- ferg


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"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/


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