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There is an interesting article that explains Google Bombing. <br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_bombing">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_bombing</a><br>
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Jorge<br>
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Azamin wrote:
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<blockquote type="cite">Try it as soon as you get this. It works!
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Fiza
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Brilliant!!!!!!!
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Subject: Google
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1. Go to <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.google.com">www.google.com</a>
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2. Type in failure
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3. Press the I'm feeling lucky button (instead of the Google search
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one)
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4. Laugh
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5. Forward to friends before the Google folks fix this!
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The Google replied:
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"Googlebombing 'failure'
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9/16/2005 12:54:00 PM
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Posted by Marissa Mayer, Director of Consumer Web Products
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If you do a Google search on the word [failure] or the phrase
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[miserable failure], the top result is currently the White House’s
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official biographical page for President Bush. We've received some
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complaints recently from users who assume that this reflects a
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political bias on our part. I'd like to explain how these results come
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up in order to allay these concerns.
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Google's search results are generated by computer programs that rank
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web pages in large part by examining the number and relative popularity
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of the sites that link to them. By using a practice called
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googlebombing, however, determined pranksters can occasionally produce
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odd results. In this case, a number of webmasters use the phrases
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[failure] and [miserable failure] to describe and link to President
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Bush's website, thus pushing it to the top of searches for those
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phrases. We don't condone the practice of googlebombing, or any other
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action that seeks to affect the integrity of our search results, but
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we're also reluctant to alter our results by hand in order to prevent
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such items from showing up. Pranks like this may be distracting to
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some, but they don't affect the overall quality of our search service,
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whose objectivity, as always, remains the core of our mission."
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