During the 2004 United States Presidential elections GOOGLE BOMBS where used against George W. Bush....The trick was that Web users entering the words "MISERABLE FAILURE" into the search engine and pressing the button "i'm feeling lucky" were directed to the biography of the president on the White House website.
It was crearly a political statement that google was making against the candidate....
But what exactly is google bombing? I did some research and I found out that the way google works is by using anchor words (in spanish=palabras ancla) to link to web sites and popularity rankings...so they manipulated the anchor words and popularity rankings to the white house bigraphy of bush...this very dishonest practice was done only by a group of web masters who wanted to make a joke...
Marissa Mayer, Director of Consumer Web Products in Google said: 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.
interesting! great joke google!!!
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