Proverbial

As Träsel notes (.br), if you search Google for “national shame” in Portuguese, the first result you get is the link for the Senate*. Which just makes me wonder how long it’ll take before something like this makes its way to Congress.

A Polish paper has reported that a googlebomber (”23 years old Marek W. from Cieszyn”) has been arrested for creating a googlebomb that turned President Lech Kaczyński’s homepage into the top search result for Google searches on the word “kutas” (”penis”). Marek W faces up to three years in prison.

*It just occurred to me that people may not know the reason for this particular Googlebombing. The CliffsNotes version can be found in various pieces such as this from Bloomberg. What they don’t mention, and is quite an interesting thing, is that even though there were only 35 votes in favor of expelling Mr. Calheiros, when interviewed by newspapers, more than 40 Senators said they voted for it.