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TIME was - say, two months ago - when typing the phrase "miserable failure" into the Google search box produced an unexpected result: the White House's official biography of President George W. Bush.But now the president has a fight on his hands for the top ranking - from former President Jimmy Carter, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton and the author-filmmaker Michael Moore.
The unlikely electoral battle is being waged through "Google bombing," or manipulating the Web's search engines to produce, in this case, political commentary. Unlike Web politicking by other means, like hacking into sites to deface or alter their message, Google bombing is a group sport, taking advantage of the Web-indexing innovation that led Google to search-engine supremacy.
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[nytimes.com...]
a well done article
"Google Bombing" was coined by a WebmasterWorld member in late 00.
Previous to that, we called it "Google RF'ing". They ran off in a huff because th they didn't want to call it for political reasons and ran off to take credit for it.
[webmasterworld.com...]
"We're only seeing it with obscure queries where there's really not that much action on the Web about them," said Craig Silverstein, Google's director of technology. "I don't think it's possible to do this sort of thing on queries with well-defined results like ' I.B.M.' So given that it only affects one query out of the more than 200 million a day we handle, it's hard to see it becoming much of a problem."
"Obscure queries." Right Craig!
I don't think it's possible to do this sort of thing on queries with well-defined results like ' I.B.M.'
Dangerous thing to say, many people out there will take this as a challenge.
That statement is very foolish.
Or a very, very clever way of generating on-going free publicity.
