Playing with Google

If The New Scientist says its OK.....

[NFFC]

There's no techie trickery here, nor is someone at Google playing a prank. It seems that all you have to do is come up with a page that lots of people find sufficiently funny to link to from their sites

A small piece about the recent I'm feeling lucky "exploits".

http://www.newscientist.com [newscientist.com]

[Powdork]

Here's another way to play with Google.
Put a page on one of your websites titled
<Powdork would love you to be his wife>.
On another page Link to this page with the phrase
<Does Powdork love me> as the anchor text.
Remember to insert your name instead of Powdork.
Then have one of her friends send her an email, or courriel, encouraging her to ask Google <Does powdork love me?>

A noindex, follow tag on the linking page can ensure it doesn't outrank the proper page.

Disclaimer- This is untested and the worst case scenario may just be that it works.

[allanp73]

I imagine there could be a way to get people to link to you using a prank strategy and as a result achieve high rankings.
Just for a joke (ex. auto site) please link to my business using the following text "dude where's my car" possibly then this site could rank well for "car" if enough people link. :)

[voodoo]

Too competetive. But you might rank highly for 'dude.' 80k searches on overture. Most of them for 'dude ranch.'

voodoo