Posted on 01/26/2007 12:10:02 PM PST by Terpfen
Google has finally had it with Googlebombing, the act of hundreds of Internet users linking up specific words with certain web sites in order to produce a desired (and usually comical) search result. The company announced today via its corporate blog that they have finally altered their search engine algorithm to minimize the impact of Googlebombs by improving the way they analyze link structures on web sites.
Google's previous stance on this type of Internet pranking was just that—it was a prank and that they didn't want to get involved in manually altering otherwise-harmless antics on the web. Also called "linkbombing," the most famous Googlebomb was of course the search for the phrase "failure" that produced a link to the current US President, George W. Bush. Some other Googlebombs included associating the search term "waffles" with Senator John Kerry and "talentless hack" with Adam Mathes, but not all Googlebombs were created to slander—some users Googlebombed the word "Jew" to stop pointing to a hate site and instead directed the term to point to the Wikipedia entry on Jewish people.
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It looks like that one has been reported.
I just tried that, and the first 16 hits were about the Bush google bombing. Then there was one about that pitiful jerk McGreevy. If you add -bush, the McGreevy hit is first.
Yes. Thank you very much.
That's funny.....
Hell Doc, all I did was google the keywords. But I'm glad I could help.
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