Search Engine "Death Penalty" For Sen. Kay Hutchinson (R-TX)

Sen. Kay Hutchinson (R-TX) is running for Texas governor against incumbent Rick Perry and her campaign staff thought it was a good idea to embed thousands of invisible search term meta-tags on her campaign site, including "rick perry gay." Oh, hilarious! The folks at Google and Yahoo didn't like that so much and have given Hutchinson the "death penalty," completely removing her site from their search results. Hutchinson's staff is blaming a vendor.

Hutchison's campaign initially told the Austin American-Statesman that "a vendor sold them on a tool that generates the phrases hourly or less in an attempt to divine the most frequent Web searches made by individuals who search online using one or all of the terms 'Rick Perry,' 'Kay Bailey Hutchison' and 'Texas'"--and plenty of people search for "rick perry gay." The tool was allegedly used to help make banner ad buying decision, said the campaign, a claim that makes little sense on its face. Why would such a list be inserted in the website's source code unless the goal was to draw search traffic to the site?

"Kate Hutchinson asshat." "Kate Hutchinson bukkake." "Kate Hutchinson sex tape." Whee!

(Tipped by JMG reader Atomische)