New Google - Kinda off topic

[Chris Keelan]

On Fri, 20 Feb 2004 00:01:01 -0500
"Robert McDonald" <robert-yzlPDbdf3LosA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> With the Buzz about the new Google Search index rolling out on
> http://64.233.161.105/
> 
> I really wonder how searching for
> 
> miserable failure
> 
> Brings up the page it does in the number one spot ?

It's called "Google bombing". Google ranks pages by the number of times
they're mentioned on other pages, among other criteria. There's been a
concerted political effort to link the words "miserable failure" to
G.W.B. by mentioning those words with a hyperlink to the page you found
on as many different web pages as possible.

Slashdot is doing the same with the words "litigious bastards" and SCO.

Internet activism is coming of age.

~ C
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