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HaTcH - October 6, 2005 11:22 PM (GMT)
=] Goto Google and type in failure or miserable failure and click "I'm feeling Lucky." See where it takes you.

ZeRoRaVeN - October 6, 2005 11:26 PM (GMT)
*sigh* you just found out? This is many months..no, maybe even over a year old..some people just used some tatics to push a website to the top..usually associating a page with failure with links to the website does the trick...

K-62 - October 7, 2005 12:29 AM (GMT)
:lol: I didnt need google to tell me this. Its not a trick or anything its usually the site with the most hits or (this is me talking) the site the pays google the most money.

ZeRoRaVeN - October 7, 2005 01:26 AM (GMT)
That's bribery, and no that's not how it works..that's yahoo though..yahoo accepts payments for advertisers to move up their search rank I think...but google doesn't

I googled up an article:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/chi...ll=chi-news-hed

it's called google bombing

QUOTE
How does a Google bomb work? Here's the company's own, reasonably lucid explanation: "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. . . . In this case, a number of Web masters use the phrases failure and miserable failure to describe and link to President Bush's Web site, thus pushing it to the top of searches for those phrases."

For this reason, and the fact that other search engines are also affected, some have argued that "link bombing" is the better term.




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