2006-08-29 12:43:56 · 18 answers · asked by Doc 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Internet
Googlebombing 'failure'
9/16/2005 12:54:00 PM
Posted by Marissa Mayer, Director of Consumer Web Products
If you do a Google search on the word [failure] or the phrase [miserable failure], the top result is currently the White House’s official biographical page for President Bush. We've received some complaints recently from users who assume that this reflects a political bias on our part. I'd like to explain how these results come up in order to allay these concerns.
Google's search results are generated by computer programs that rank web pages in large part by examining the number and relative popularity of the sites that link to them. By using a practice called googlebombing, however, determined pranksters can occasionally produce odd results. In this case, a number of webmasters use the phrases [failure] and [miserable failure] to describe and link to President Bush's website, thus pushing it to the top of searches for those phrases. We don't condone the practice of googlebombing, or any other action that seeks to affect the integrity of our search results, but we're also reluctant to alter our results by hand in order to prevent such items from showing up. Pranks like this may be distracting to some, but they don't affect the overall quality of our search service, whose objectivity, as always, remains the core of our mission.
2006-08-29 12:48:30 · answer #1 · answered by D Lo 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's called Google Bombing and they accomplish this by using bots or programs to to place a large number of specific links to the intended target on pages that Google watches. More info at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Bomb
2006-08-29 19:49:05 · answer #2 · answered by karkov48 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because George W Bush is a moran.
2006-08-31 23:19:28 · answer #3 · answered by Jeremy© ® ™ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Using links to the Whitehouse
Lots of people did it
2006-08-29 19:46:26 · answer #4 · answered by Shano3651 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because even morons get Googled a lot.
2006-08-29 19:46:39 · answer #5 · answered by Bostonian In MO 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/09/googlebombing-failure.html
2006-08-29 23:27:34 · answer #6 · answered by iversonfan3 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's called a Google bomb. It's also the truth.
2006-08-29 19:46:13 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
No idea but I laughed until I cried when someone told me about it.
2006-08-29 19:47:24 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Like my teachers always told me, he earned that failing grade.
2006-08-29 19:47:21 · answer #9 · answered by Richie D 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it's called google bombing. linking a word or phrase with a certain page which it shouldn't really be linked with.
you can read about it here:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3298443.stm?ls
2006-08-29 19:46:16 · answer #10 · answered by piquet 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋