Google "failure"

[LeeOz]

Someone in Google has a sense of humor. Try this before they fix it:

 

1. Go to http://www.google.com

2. Type in "failure"

3. Check out the first result entry. :7

[SAdler]

Hate to rain on your parade

 

http://m4m.m4m-forum.org/dcboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=4&topic_id=100374&mesg_id=100374&listing_type=search

 

I also thought I had brought it up too at some point but couldn't find it in the search engine.

[+ deej]

This has been around for about 5 or 6 years and has nothing to do with a sense of humor at Google.

 

The phenomenon is known as "Googlewhacking". When enough webmasters fiddle their meta keywords to be the same, they can get Google's search engine to cough up whatever they want. There's another keyword search that brings up Bill Gates.

 

It's still funny, though.

[LeeOz]

Apparently, it is now called "googlebombing". Here is the official explanation from Google:

 

"If you do a Google search on the word [failure] or the phrase [miserable failure], the top result is currently the ***. 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 ***'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."

[LeeOz]

RE: Googlebombing for Daddy

 

Credit to Candyman for first posting "google failure" on this site. I do not know what planet I have been living in, but this is the first I am learning about googlebombing.

 

Here is a short article on googlebombing:

http://www.searchengineguide.com/laycock/005655.html

 

It occurred to me though, can we, the people who frequent Daddy's Reviews, use googlebombing to raise the ranking of the site in Google? I, for one, can not find the site in Google. Does anyone know the current ranking of http://www.daddysreviews.com in Google when you search "male escort reviews"?

 

Would Daddy sanction this drive? Would people be interested?

 

To someone out there who is more technical, is it as simple as the article makes it out to be? Is it just a matter of placing links to the review site under the text "male escort reviews" in our blog sites, for example?