GOP Hopeful Rick Santorum Looks Past 'Google Problem'

GOP presidential hopeful Rick Santorum has had a few obstacles of late-- this week he was criticized for signing a religious group's pledge to keep marriage between a man and a women; the pledge also claimed that while slavery was bad, at least black families were more stable then — a section that has since been removed.

Santorum has also been dealing with a "Google problem." Mainly that when you search Santorum's name online, the top result is not his campaign website, but rather a website that redefines Santorum's name as something related to a sex act.

The website was set up by sex columnist and gay rights activist, Dan Savage, out of protest over anti-gay comments Santorum made years back, when he was a Senator from Pennsylvania.

Slate.com's Chris Wilson told Here & Now's Robin Young that the website Dan Savage created is an example of a Google bomb, or a deliberate attempt to manipulate Google's search engine as a prank.  Though Google has put a stop to other Google bombs in the past, Dan Savage's website has proved a challenge, because it has morphed into a larger political protest.

Meanwhile, Rick Santorum has downplayed Savage's page, but it still turns up at the top of Google searches.