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Jan 26th, 2007 at 2:27 pm by PSoTD

Those days are over. Defused.

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7 Responses to “Remember the Google Bomb Era?”

on 26 Jan 2007 at 3:02 pm1Izquierdo

But you know what? –
He’s still a miserable failure,
and his mother dresses him funny.
on 26 Jan 2007 at 3:12 pm2Chris

Not only that, he’s stupid and ugly and nobody likes him.
on 26 Jan 2007 at 4:01 pm3PSoTD

Even if he thinks he is the decision decider maker.
on 26 Jan 2007 at 4:10 pm4AJ Lynch

How did they get that to work in the first place?
on 26 Jan 2007 at 4:47 pm5Screwy Hoolie

Thanks for the link, PSoTD!
on 26 Jan 2007 at 5:06 pm6snuzy mandrake

How did they get that to work in the first place?

a google bomb exploits (or used to exploit) a shortcut in the google algorithm. when google is searching web sites and sees a link in a text and the link says “declaration of independence” then google assumes that the url behind the link is more likely to be the declaration of independence and gives it a higher ranking for searches for the words “declaration of independence.”

so bloggers eventually discovered that this is how google works and started taking advantage of it. so, for example, a whole bunch of people started putting a link to the president’s official biography using the words “miserable failure.” eventually enough people did it and google started giving bush’s bio the #1 ranking for google searches for “miserable failure.”

there were a whole lot of other google bombs out there, and counter-google bombs. at one point someone noticed that googling the word “jew” produced only a bunch of anti-semitic sites and so there was a counter-google bomb movement to googlebomb the word “jew” to a neutral definition of the religion.

there was also a famous tug-of-war google bomb between arabs and iranians over the english term “arab gulf.” that’s what the persian gulf is called in arabic, and some arabs call the gulf “the arab gulf” in english too. iranians set up a joke error page explaining that there was no such thing as the arab gulf and that it’s only called the “persian gulf” and google bombed it, causing a retaliatory google bomb movement to “take back” the term “arab gulf”

there can also be inadvertant google bombs. my name was accidentally google bombed when by friends linked to my site using my real name.
on 26 Jan 2007 at 6:10 pm7Monkeyfister

Hey, PSoTD,

PLEASE leave me a comment at my place: http://monkeyfister.blogspot.com as to how that gritty, yellow lung tea is working out for you.

As you might know, I had a nasty epileptic seizure last week, and broke some ribs… SO– I’ve got the rib wrap keeping my ribs together, and stopping me from cleansing, deep breaths. That tea is keeping my chain-smoking lungs clean– no rales yet, and I stand by it 100%. I sincerely hope that it helps you. There is plenty of science backing it up… Some folks may need more than my skinny, little ass might need. I drink a BIG beer mug of it about once every three hours. Be SURE to stir it up, and DRINK that gritty, yellow yak!

I really hope you’re feeling better soon.

–mf