No more Google bombs
Google has stepped in to get rid of so-called Google Bombs, the manipulation by mass linking to create a search result. Type in “miserable failure” and you no longer get the Googlebombed return of the US President’s office, George W. Bush, Jimmy Carter or Michael Moore. Danny Sullivan, for it is he, has all the details at Search Engine Land.
Read more about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_Google_bombs… During the 2004 U.S. Presidential Election, the google bomb was used to further various political agendas. Two of the first google bombs were the “Miserable Failure” google bomb linked to George W. Bush’s Whitehouse biography and the “Waffles” google bomb that linked to John Kerry’s website. At different times supporters and detractors of these political candidates were able to shift around the results so that searches for “miserable failure” and “waffles” would return links to the particular targets of the groups trying to influence the search.
