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==Google search "talentless hack" rating==
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The page claims that it itself is currently the number three return on Google for the words "talentless hack" - this is untrue. The page is, as of right now, the number ''TWO'' return. The irony does not cease to amuse me.--] 05:51, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
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== Google search for bastards ==
Searching on google for bastards returns a link to SCO. I believe this was caused by slashdot-crowd. I think this should be added...


:* On 13-Nov-2008, "talentless hack" matched Misplaced Pages "Google bomb" as first, then Urban Dictionary. Those are not Google bomb examples, just that Google favors those websites for valid search results. -] (]) 03:43, 14 Nov 2008
:We already have the entry for "litigious bastards" linking to SCO. Was there a separate attempt to link the single word "bastards"? Or was this just an incidental byproduct of the Googlebombing of the phrase "litigious bastards"? ] 12:29, 20 Jun 2004 (UTC)


== ] ==
::I'm not sure if it was a seperate instance or due to Google's algorithm, but it's not really that important anyway.
The article ] now redirects to ]. Please merge any material if deemed relevant. <span class="user-sig user-Quarl"><i>—] <sup>(])</sup> <small>2006-12-26 14:41Z</small></i></span>
*{{discussion at|Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/French military victories (practical joke) (2nd nomination)}}


==Removed content==
:It might be important (or at least worth mentioning) if the SCO Googlebomb was so powerful that it was able to get to the top listing not just for the specific phrase "litigious bastards," but for the much more common unmodified "bastards." I, for one, was very surprised when I did that Google search (in response to the comment here) and found SCO at the top. ] 23:10, 20 Jun 2004 (UTC)
I've removed material similar to a couple of times now. While it's probably verifiable that Google's algorithm has changed, and that they may ''claim'' this will slow or stop Google bombing, any speculation as to its effects (or "I saw it myself" anecdotal stories) are ]. Let's wait until ] report on the actual effect rather than speculating on it. ] 19:44, 26 January 2007 (UTC)


* How about the ? Good enough? -- ] 05:43, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
==Redirect war==
No more redirect war. "Googlebomb" wins the Google Test, so it's the true article, and "google bombing" now redirects here. Please leave it that way. Thank you.


::There's tons out about it now, thanks for pointing it out. Looks like we're in need of a different update here, too: . I'll get their take on that put in as well. ] 07:40, 27 January 2007 (UTC)


== time for an update ==
Sorry about that. It was kind of confusing, as I couldn't tell what was supposed to lead where, or if there was a real article at all. I didn't mean to redirect war--just confusion. I apologize. The article on Googlebomb looks nice, BTW--thanks for your contribution, and clarification. ] 05:37, 4 Mar 2004 (UTC)
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2007/01/quick-word-about-googlebombs.html
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070126-8714.html <small>—] (]) 19:56, 26 January 2007 (UTC).</small>


:Already been done! See ] 20:15, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
==Dates on google bombs?==


:: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/01/earlier_today_m.html <small>—] (]) 18:35, 27 January 2007 (UTC).</small>
Umm, as Google is a dynamic entity, should we include dates with these google bombs? Now when I google for 'failure' i get Michael Moore. Bush is third or something. - ] ] 15:49, Mar 26, 2004 (UTC)


==History==
: I think that'd be a good idea. "Waffles" don't work any more for example -- you now get a list with waffle recipes. "failure" yields Bush's bio right now. Along with a date, we could even archive the results using screenshots. I'm sure that a few years from now kerrywaffles.com might be gone ... --] 18:09, 14 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Maybe the expression "dumb motherf***er" in the History section of the article should be censored?... ;) -- JBatista 12:36, 30 January 2007 (UTC)


:(moved to bottom) Actually, Misplaced Pages is not censored. You can read more about this at ].++]++ 23:55, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
==Transient google bombs?==


== text content ==
Whereever the comment should be please note that Misplaced Pages "Jew" displacing "Jew Watch" was rather short lived, seems to be reversed and is too topical to go in this sort of encyclopedia in my humble opinion ]
Surely one critical aspect is missing from the main article. The term Google Bomb is used when the search term used does not appear in the page that ranks as number one. For example, with the "miserable failure" example linking to the whitehouse site, I'm fairly sure the phrase "miserable failure" doesn't appear in the content of the whitehouse page that (used to be) returned as the #1 Google result. In other words, it's only if the high-ranking site is unexpected in some way that you consider this a Google Bomb.


If the text DOES occur in the page, then the result isn't surprising, and you don't call it a google bomb.
:I think it is noteworthy that the campaign succeeded, for however short. And we can always hope that it succeeds in the future. The world needs balanced views to be promoted in favor of bigotry anywhere possible. --] 15:28, 17 Apr 2004 (UTC)


For example, searching for "Google" will, (surprise surprise), return various Google sites as the top results. Since the text "Google" occurs on these pages, making the result unsurprising, then surely this doesn't count as a Google Bomb?


In which case, the important distinction needs to be made in the article that "Google Bomb" only applies to results where the page itself has no significant mention of the text used.
Well if that campaign was noteworthy what about the others that made the national headlines? The first googlebomb I am aware of was "more evil than Satan" for microsoft at the end of 1999. On your criterion that should go in? ]
-- Howard Wright


Not really. I mean, this is sometimes the case, but, e.g. "French military victories" does appear in the text of - the point is more in the methodology (distributed effort to link to the target page with the search term in the link text) and the _disproportionate_ rank, than simply binary presence/absence of the search terms. --](]]) 15:45, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
If truely was the first, then it needs to go in for that reason alone. I just checked, and the first hit is a CNN article on the googlebomb, so it's at least partially successful still. --] 20:08, 20 Apr 2004 (UTC)
:Note: researched and added. --] 20:59, 20 Apr 2004 (UTC)


I think we're actually in fairly close agreement here - I think "significant mention of the text" and "disproprortionate" are the key ideas. I agree that a simple check to see if the text appears at all on the page is not quite discerning enough (should have worded my first para more carefully). But, the point is the article currently says "A Google bomb is created if a large number of sites link to the page in this manner" (in this manner = using consistent anchor text). By this definition, search results for "Google", "Microsoft", "BBC", "The Whitehouse" etc etc would all be classed as Google Bombs! Appropriate wording needs to be added to make the point that ONLY when the anchor text used in the many links is deliberately chosen to be an unfair/imbalanced summary of the page contents is the effect deemed to be a link bomb or Google bomb. No? -- Howard Wright
Thanks, although I struggle with your suggestion that this might have happened "by mistake". The name googlebomb may date from the noughties but the practice was definitely nineties ]
:Hey, feel free to adjust my wording. I think it was discovered by mistake, not happened by mistake. Obviously, it happened on purpose, because people liked linking to microsoft that way. I guess I'm sort of implying that they didn't do it with the intent of affecting google, although perhaps they did. It's a causality thing--discover bomb then announce it, or announce bomb and make it happen. that's why I put the "may have" in the wording. --] 05:19, 26 Apr 2004 (UTC)


== Another example ==
==Santorum==
] --] 23:39, 20 March 2007 (UTC)


i dont know where to include this on the page, if at all, but the search 'officially' returns a top page on 'what tolken officially said about elf sex'. is there a list of googlebombs on a different page? if not does someone want to make one?
Santorum was not a "slander campaign". You can say it was "not very nice" or even "malicious" to name the stuff after this man, and I'd agree (I hate the homophobic rat, but the man has kids) but it wasn't actual slander. ] 21:55, 19 Apr 2004 (UTC)


:There has to be a news articel on that "bomb" before it could be added anywhere. ] 07:36, 4 July 2007 (UTC)
==Ambition==


== Yet Another Googlebomb ==
On the Googlebombing related to ] I said "around April" since I could find no evidence of any Googlebombing activity dated March.
News reference:


http://wiadomosci.gazeta.pl/Wiadomosci/1,80269,4477719.html <small>—] (]) 02:31, 13 September 2007 (UTC)</small>
:I removed the Ambition reference. It is not a significant Googlebomb (e.g. it is reported nowhere). This is a conflict interest between you as a WP contributor and you as the inventor of ambition. (sorry!) ] ] 22:40, 19 Apr 2004 (UTC)


==Example of accidental Google Bomb?==
==Jew==
Performing a search for the term 'Fail' will give a link to the Irish political party Fianna Fáil, who are currently in government. It is likely this 'bomb' is a result of their name.


<small>—] (]) 10:07, 20 May 2008 (UTC)</small>
I had re-inserted the mention of Google's "Offensive Search Results" meta-result because, immediately before I made the edit, that item was heading the result list. I just ran the search again with the same result. Perhaps .derf overlooked it because the highlighting that I mentioned is a light blue background that makes the notice blend in with the bar above it that gives the number of hits. At any rate, Ams80 and I both saw it, so it's accurate to see that Google "is...returning" this notice (although maybe not always, for whatever reason). ] 01:52, 7 May 2004 (UTC)


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:I didn't see it because it got eaten by Proxomitron. Next time, I'll be more thorough. Sorry. --] 04:21, May 9, 2004 (UTC)
Search "" but hit "I'm Feeling Lucky" (takes you to first result) I think this is a Google Bomb. <small>—] (] • ]) 16:40, 12 May 2008 (UTC)</small>


lol. it could just be something funny that Google put in. ] (]) 18:11, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
As of this writing, shows the "offensive" banner, has wikipedia in the first slot, and jewatch in slot four! :) I'd edit the article to reflect the reality, but it gets tedious changing it back over and over. --] 04:20, 27 May 2004 (UTC)


it's fake. it's just an imitation of google. --] (]) 16:18, 26 May 2011 (UTC)
I swear it was gone when I checked. Maybe it's flaky because it's in the "sponsored links" section? In any case, I've added back the wording to try to be accurate regardless of whether or not it's "currently" there. ] ] 11:29, 11 Aug 2004 (UTC)


==Updated lede for 2-year defused bombs==
==Competition entrants==
''14-Nov-2008:'' I have updated the top section to reflect changes from 2 years ago (+source footnotes): that "Before 2007" Google bombs worked on repeated ], and "Google changed the ranking by January 2007 to list pages instead about the repeated linking of that text". Of course, to lower the rank of anchor-text repetitions, Google also ranked pages higher for other properties, but I won't mention the details of Google's later SEO algorithms, which are proprietary secrets intended to thwart ] when searching for real matches. Note that Google highly favors Misplaced Pages articles as search results in many cases, so wiki-pages could be pushed out of view if new secrets were revealed for moving ad-pages to the top of Google searches. In the past, over 300 similar linkspam pages have pushed real-content pages below the 31st page of Google results, so that's why I stated "pushed out of view" as a danger. -] (]) 03:22, 14 November 2008 (UTC)


==Listed talk-page subpages here==
I am going to replace the links to the websites which are taking part in these googlebombing competitions with links to sites about the competitions. These external links are being repeatedly changed by different people taking part in contests, none being any more worthy of the precious link from Misplaced Pages than any other as far as I can see. Also I think linking to pages about the competitions will be more informative which I guess is the overall aim of external links. -- ] 19:06, 17 May 2004 (UTC)
''14-Nov-2008:'' I have listed the known subpages (the archive files) in a wikitable (see ]) beside the Table of Contents. I also shortened several auto-signature comments. -] (]) 03:43, 14 Nov 2008


==Removal of the curses==
==Yahoo bomb==
I have removed the bad word from it's position by replacing it with stars.


Take a sneaky peak:
This item has been added to and then deleted from the list of "Accomplished Googlebombs":
* is returned under a search for "douchebag" on Yahoo!.
When I search for "douchebag" on Yahoo!, KPMG does indeed hold the top spot. On Google, though, it's not in the top 120 (all I cared to skim). If there was a deliberate attempt to do a Yahoobomb, exploiting some feature that differs from Google's, it would be worth mentioning in this article, at least until Yahoobombing advances to the point of meriting its own article. Does anyone know anything more about this? (Absent more information, I agree with deleting this entry from the Googlebomb list.) ] 15:24, 7 Jul 2004 (UTC)


In September 2000 the first Google bomb with a verifiable creator was created by Hugedisk Men's Magazine, a now-defunct online humor magazine, when it linked the text "dumb motherf***er" to a site selling George W. Bush-related merchandise.
== BtnI ==


-Yahya Al-Shiddazi <span style="font-size: smaller;" class="autosigned">—Preceding ] comment added by ] (]) 05:49, 11 January 2009 (UTC)</span><!-- Template:UnsignedIP --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->
I changed the links to add "&BtnI" a while back ], this creates the effect of having clicked the "I'm feeling lucky" button - on reflection, I realized it's possible that this could create the appearance that wikipedia is linking directly to whatever site happens to be on top at google any given week. Should these be removed?
:]. To sign your posts, click the "signature" icon in the toolbar above the textbox (second icon from the right), or type <nowiki>~~~~</nowiki> which will insert your user name and the date/time.] Personally, I think it would be a good idea to change them back so that it shows the search results so people can clearly see that it's number one or two or whatever (if it's dropped). The way it is now, there's no indication that it's showing you the result from I'm feeling lucky or that it's even showing something from Google at all for that matter. --] 19:59, 14 Sep 2004 (UTC)


:Please see ] ] (]) 23:30, 11 January 2009 (UTC)
::The reason i made the change originally is i was a bit annoyed that there wasn't any clear indication what the url of the googlebombed page was supposed to be... maybe it would make more sense to add these --]|] 21:55, 14 Sep 2004 (UTC)
::Thanks, Mr. Copysan Hohnsan! <span style="font-size: smaller;" class="autosigned">—Preceding ] comment added by ] (]) 07:31, 4 February 2009 (UTC)</span><!-- Template:UnsignedIP --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->


== How does Google Bombing work? ==
== Berlusconi ==
This article explains everything from the history of Google bombing to competitors. However it doesn't provide the simple explanation and the most basic question of the lay person: How does Google bombing work? What is the process involved in making a Google bomb?--] (]) 12:39, 15 January 2009 (UTC)
:Try Anthony Cox's article and see if that explains it better for you. ] (]) 17:06, 12 February 2009 (UTC)


Somebody needs to mention xkcd for their ability to consistently googlebomb. I remember the good old days when they were #3 for "hardcore pornography" and #1 for "Roomba dueling harness"
I have noticed that the HTML meta tag preventing from indexing Italian president Berlusconi's has been removed, and that the "" Googlebomb works again. Should this section therefore be removed or edited to take account of this? --] 13:36, 22 Nov 2004 (UTC)


== Scientology Googlebomb ==
:I've added the well-known "Miserabile fallimento" bomb. I also edited "Buffone" saying it bombs to a unofficial biography. Should we put the "Miserable failure" and "Miserabile fallimento" bombs near? After all, "Miserabile fallimento" is the italian version of that bomb.
Is there a reason why the Scientology Googlebomb isn't up here? It's a good example of Googlebombing to communicate a political message by a group. Searching "Dangerous Cult" on Google had the Scientology main page as it's first result for quite a while. ] (]) 23:41, 8 June 2009 (UTC)


== Miserable Failure ==
:// ] 14:09, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)
I searched miserable failure on Ask.com, and the Bush page comes up first!
] (]) 01:05, 6 September 2009 (UTC)


==Updating==
== The Quixtar Corporation is removing criticism ==
Hi, the article seems strong, but can we get any more up to date info onto it. The last story seems to be from 2007. Best, Darigan ] (]) 21:50, 19 November 2009 (UTC)


: I think it is a reasonably strong article, but the changes at Google largely make the practice moot. That is, SEO still matters, but the explicit practice (and the term) seem to have been limited to a particular time. - ] (]) 22:16, 20 November 2009 (UTC)
The Quixtar Corporation is "vandalizing" this Misplaced Pages artice (Google Bomb) by removing all references to its coordinated Google Bomb campaign. On March 4, at 14:07, 14:09 and 16:42, all references to Quixtar were deleted from the article by IP 167.23.0.90 which resolves to Alticor, Quixtar's parent company. A review of the edits made by that IP address show a history of similar deletions on the Quixtar and Amway articles.


== Scientology vs. Reddit ==
Why is a billion dollar corporation vandalizing Wiki? Perhaps they're hiding something?
A few days ago, a ] noticed that the search "is it possible to be happy" (the top search at the time) yielded a page from ] as its top result. Disgruntled, the redditor created a thread requesting links from others, and another redditor created an alternative site, which soon reached #2 on the results page. As I write this, . I was involved in the bomb. Is this notable? -- ] at ] (]) 02:58, 24 February 2010 (UTC)


== Vienna elections, october 2010 ==
== Quixtar ==
http://www.google.com/search?q=vollkoffer&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:de:official&client=firefox-a
A search for the Austrian expression "Vollkoffer" (dumbass, idiot) links directly to the homepage of the head of the right wing extremist Freedom Party, HC Strache <span style="font-size: smaller;" class="autosigned">—Preceding ] comment added by ] (]) 23:24, 6 October 2010 (UTC)</span><!-- Template:UnsignedIP --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->


== Comment ==
Hi,
I removed "It's very funny, as it is actually true. The french have never won a battle". This is not true. The French have a in reality won battles in the past. Reference any Napoleonic history.


This is no longer a working google bomb <span style="font-size: smaller;" class="autosigned">—Preceding ] comment added by ] (]) 21:13, 29 January 2011 (UTC)</span><!-- Template:UnsignedIP --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->
I've flagged this as needing POV attention. I am not associated with Quixtar :-) However, I was reading this article and it reads in a very biased POV way. I think it needs some cleanup.


== Possible Google Bomb ==
== Misplaced Pages ] article ==
When you Google, "StalkerNet" the first hit is the . The two have no correlation, and ] does not refer to the directory as StalkerNet.


] (]) 23:01, 18 April 2011 (UTC)
We're being googlebombed by bloggers... there's a slashdot article on it. Check the talk page of ] for more info. --] | ] 02:14, Mar 15, 2005 (UTC)

:As an MTU alumni from back in the day, I can say that the directory has a long history of being referred to by that name extending into the pre-google era. No, I can't back it up :D, but it is what everyone on campus refers to the directory as even now... dunno. ] (]) 20:18, 22 August 2011 (UTC)

== Article needs credible references ==
I have checked the sources cited and many do not meet the standards of credible references for Misplaced Pages. They're personal blogs, personal opinions on Google answer, contents published on questionable pages such as commercial sites that aren't notable. ] (]) 08:01, 1 September 2011 (UTC)

== SEO contests are not google bombs ==
The page mentions two SEO contests as examples of google bombs, but although those contests may have used link-text techniques, they were not specifically attempts at google bombing. -- ~~ <span style="font-size: smaller;" class="autosigned">— Preceding ] comment added by ] (]) 13:38, 9 November 2011 (UTC)</span><!-- Template:Unsigned IP --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->

==Google bomb about defining an english person==
Apparrently googling "Define an english person defines the wikipedia page for Cunt according to this article. http://www.zdnet.com/blog/london/google-8216glitch-returns-swearing-if-you-8216define-an-english-person/1631 ] (]) 04:55, 18 December 2011 (UTC)
:It's not been identified as a Googlebomb yet, also please remember to post new messages at the bottom :) --] · ] ] <small><sup>Merry</sup><sub>Xmas!</sub></small> 01:00, 22 December 2011 (UTC)

== "What defines an English person" ==
As of yet, this has '''not''' been identified as a googlebomb - so please ''do not'' add this case to the list. Thanks. --] · ] ] <small><sup>Merry</sup><sub>Xmas!</sub></small> 00:59, 22 December 2011 (UTC)

== google bombs ==
the google bombs listed don't work since they are on this page ] (]) 02:04, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

== Googlebombing as harassment ==
Another use, which might be argued as political but really is much more directed and personal than that, is to use the process as a way to harass people, notably bloggers but not needfully limited to that.

Here is a specific case detailed out, but which actually involves multiple targets of a convicted domestic terrorist by the name of Brett Kimberlin:<br />
Convicted Bomber Brett Kimberlin, Neal Rauhauser, Ron Brynaert, and Their Campaign of Political Terrorism<br />
http://patterico.com/2012/05/25/convicted-bomber-brett-kimberlin-neal-rauhauser-ron-brynaert-and-their-campaign-of-political-terrorism/<br />
The googlebombing is only a specific sub-part of the story, which is a pretty obnoxious tale in itself.

== Misplaced Pages links appearing first in search because of references on bottom of pages ==
I think the person who wrote this thought that a page with many links ''on'' it gets higher in search results, but that's actually a page with many links ''to'' it. <small><span class="autosigned">— Preceding ] comment added by ] (] • ]) 21:55, 11 August 2012 (UTC)</span></small><!-- Template:Unsigned --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->

== Mitt Romney "Completely Wrong" bomb ==

Someone should write something about this. Seems important enough to warrant a mention here. --] (]) 04:59, 11 October 2012 (UTC)

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== What to call this? ==

When I googled "rhett and link webby awards 2015", a photoshopped picture of them kissing came up. It links to an "article" that makes an erroneous and brazen claim that they are engaged... I think this happened because of the heavy use of keywords on the page. Either way, it's pretty strange and unusual that it's so high in the results. I know it's not a googlebomb but what is it classified as? I have not found a term describing this. Thanks. ] (]) 11:39, 11 March 2018 (UTC)

:Probably an SEO strategy around keyword stuffing. ] (]) 15:53, 16 October 2022 (UTC)

== New (geeky) googlebomb ==

According to google, git is terrible, but wget can do no wrong. Search "wget is terrible" ] (]) 14:36, 20 May 2020 (UTC)

== 4th wall break? ==

"Since no later than 21 June 2015, the first result in a Google search for "miserable failure" is this article."

Are we allowed to say that kind of thing? Misplaced Pages usually refers to itself in 3rd person, even in its own article ] (]) 04:19, 28 April 2023 (UTC)

== Amber Heard Google Bomb? ==

Can someone consider the merit of an Amber Heard Google Bomb?

After the Depp Vs. Heard trial, if someone was to search the word "perjury", the first several images that appeared were of Amber Heard, this happened for several months after the trial results. ] (]) 16:12, 26 May 2024 (UTC)

== N vintners j ==

idly hmm ] (]) 05:48, 31 July 2024 (UTC)

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Google search "talentless hack" rating

The page claims that it itself is currently the number three return on Google for the words "talentless hack" - this is untrue. The page is, as of right now, the number TWO return. The irony does not cease to amuse me.--64.24.25.45 05:51, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

  • On 13-Nov-2008, "talentless hack" matched Misplaced Pages "Google bomb" as first, then Urban Dictionary. Those are not Google bomb examples, just that Google favors those websites for valid search results. -Wikid77 (talk) 03:43, 14 Nov 2008

French military victories (practical joke)

The article French military victories (practical joke) now redirects to Google bomb. Please merge any material if deemed relevant. Quarl 2006-12-26 14:41Z

Removed content

I've removed material similar to this a couple of times now. While it's probably verifiable that Google's algorithm has changed, and that they may claim this will slow or stop Google bombing, any speculation as to its effects (or "I saw it myself" anecdotal stories) are original research. Let's wait until reliable sources report on the actual effect rather than speculating on it. Seraphimblade 19:44, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

There's tons out about it now, thanks for pointing it out. Looks like we're in need of a different update here, too: . I'll get their take on that put in as well. Seraphimblade 07:40, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

time for an update

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2007/01/quick-word-about-googlebombs.html http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070126-8714.html 71.103.88.223 (talk) 19:56, 26 January 2007 (UTC).

Already been done! See Seraphimblade 20:15, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/01/earlier_today_m.html 24.22.22.101 (talk) 18:35, 27 January 2007 (UTC).

History

Maybe the expression "dumb motherf***er" in the History section of the article should be censored?... ;) -- JBatista 12:36, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

(moved to bottom) Actually, Misplaced Pages is not censored. You can read more about this at Misplaced Pages:What Misplaced Pages is not.++aviper2k7++ 23:55, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

text content

Surely one critical aspect is missing from the main article. The term Google Bomb is used when the search term used does not appear in the page that ranks as number one. For example, with the "miserable failure" example linking to the whitehouse site, I'm fairly sure the phrase "miserable failure" doesn't appear in the content of the whitehouse page that (used to be) returned as the #1 Google result. In other words, it's only if the high-ranking site is unexpected in some way that you consider this a Google Bomb.

If the text DOES occur in the page, then the result isn't surprising, and you don't call it a google bomb.

For example, searching for "Google" will, (surprise surprise), return various Google sites as the top results. Since the text "Google" occurs on these pages, making the result unsurprising, then surely this doesn't count as a Google Bomb?

In which case, the important distinction needs to be made in the article that "Google Bomb" only applies to results where the page itself has no significant mention of the text used. -- Howard Wright

Not really. I mean, this is sometimes the case, but, e.g. "French military victories" does appear in the text of - the point is more in the methodology (distributed effort to link to the target page with the search term in the link text) and the _disproportionate_ rank, than simply binary presence/absence of the search terms. --Random832(tc) 15:45, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

I think we're actually in fairly close agreement here - I think "significant mention of the text" and "disproprortionate" are the key ideas. I agree that a simple check to see if the text appears at all on the page is not quite discerning enough (should have worded my first para more carefully). But, the point is the article currently says "A Google bomb is created if a large number of sites link to the page in this manner" (in this manner = using consistent anchor text). By this definition, search results for "Google", "Microsoft", "BBC", "The Whitehouse" etc etc would all be classed as Google Bombs! Appropriate wording needs to be added to make the point that ONLY when the anchor text used in the many links is deliberately chosen to be an unfair/imbalanced summary of the page contents is the effect deemed to be a link bomb or Google bomb. No? -- Howard Wright

Another example

Crazy cult. Guess who? --Jnelson09 23:39, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

i dont know where to include this on the page, if at all, but the search 'officially' returns a top page on 'what tolken officially said about elf sex'. is there a list of googlebombs on a different page? if not does someone want to make one?

There has to be a news articel on that "bomb" before it could be added anywhere. 68.39.174.238 07:36, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

Yet Another Googlebomb

News reference:

http://wiadomosci.gazeta.pl/Wiadomosci/1,80269,4477719.html 71.145.136.90 (talk) 02:31, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

Example of accidental Google Bomb?

Performing a search for the term 'Fail' will give a link to the Irish political party Fianna Fáil, who are currently in government. It is likely this 'bomb' is a result of their name.

193.120.137.237 (talk) 10:07, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

Search Find Chuck Norris

Search "Search Find Chuck Norris" but hit "I'm Feeling Lucky" (takes you to first result) I think this is a Google Bomb. Xor24 (talkcontribs) 16:40, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

lol. it could just be something funny that Google put in. 75.105.128.57 (talk) 18:11, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

it's fake. it's just an imitation of google. --24.103.212.138 (talk) 16:18, 26 May 2011 (UTC)

Updated lede for 2-year defused bombs

14-Nov-2008: I have updated the top section to reflect changes from 2 years ago (+source footnotes): that "Before 2007" Google bombs worked on repeated anchor text, and "Google changed the ranking by January 2007 to list pages instead about the repeated linking of that text". Of course, to lower the rank of anchor-text repetitions, Google also ranked pages higher for other properties, but I won't mention the details of Google's later SEO algorithms, which are proprietary secrets intended to thwart linkspam when searching for real matches. Note that Google highly favors Misplaced Pages articles as search results in many cases, so wiki-pages could be pushed out of view if new secrets were revealed for moving ad-pages to the top of Google searches. In the past, over 300 similar linkspam pages have pushed real-content pages below the 31st page of Google results, so that's why I stated "pushed out of view" as a danger. -Wikid77 (talk) 03:22, 14 November 2008 (UTC)

Listed talk-page subpages here

14-Nov-2008: I have listed the known subpages (the archive files) in a wikitable (see Help:Table) beside the Table of Contents. I also shortened several auto-signature comments. -Wikid77 (talk) 03:43, 14 Nov 2008

Removal of the curses

I have removed the bad word from it's position by replacing it with stars.

Take a sneaky peak:

In September 2000 the first Google bomb with a verifiable creator was created by Hugedisk Men's Magazine, a now-defunct online humor magazine, when it linked the text "dumb motherf***er" to a site selling George W. Bush-related merchandise.

-Yahya Al-Shiddazi —Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.26.12.34 (talk) 05:49, 11 January 2009 (UTC)

Please see WP:NOTCENSORED Copysan (talk) 23:30, 11 January 2009 (UTC)
Thanks, Mr. Copysan Hohnsan! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.138.113.11 (talk) 07:31, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

How does Google Bombing work?

This article explains everything from the history of Google bombing to competitors. However it doesn't provide the simple explanation and the most basic question of the lay person: How does Google bombing work? What is the process involved in making a Google bomb?--Josh Is Dead (talk) 12:39, 15 January 2009 (UTC)

Try Anthony Cox's War on the web article and see if that explains it better for you. Pawyilee (talk) 17:06, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

Somebody needs to mention xkcd for their ability to consistently googlebomb. I remember the good old days when they were #3 for "hardcore pornography" and #1 for "Roomba dueling harness"

Scientology Googlebomb

Is there a reason why the Scientology Googlebomb isn't up here? It's a good example of Googlebombing to communicate a political message by a group. Searching "Dangerous Cult" on Google had the Scientology main page as it's first result for quite a while. DarthHamsy (talk) 23:41, 8 June 2009 (UTC)

Miserable Failure

I searched miserable failure on Ask.com, and the Bush page comes up first! 71.7.85.97 (talk) 01:05, 6 September 2009 (UTC)

Updating

Hi, the article seems strong, but can we get any more up to date info onto it. The last story seems to be from 2007. Best, Darigan 86.152.160.255 (talk) 21:50, 19 November 2009 (UTC)

I think it is a reasonably strong article, but the changes at Google largely make the practice moot. That is, SEO still matters, but the explicit practice (and the term) seem to have been limited to a particular time. - Halavais (talk) 22:16, 20 November 2009 (UTC)

Scientology vs. Reddit

A few days ago, a redditor noticed that the search "is it possible to be happy" (the top search at the time) yielded a page from Scientology as its top result. Disgruntled, the redditor created a thread requesting links from others, and another redditor created an alternative site, which soon reached #2 on the results page. As I write this, this is still the case. I was involved in the bomb. Is this notable? -- Luser at 99.69.244.33 (talk) 02:58, 24 February 2010 (UTC)

Vienna elections, october 2010

http://www.google.com/search?q=vollkoffer&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:de:official&client=firefox-a A search for the Austrian expression "Vollkoffer" (dumbass, idiot) links directly to the homepage of the head of the right wing extremist Freedom Party, HC Strache —Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.22.166.240 (talk) 23:24, 6 October 2010 (UTC)

Comment

I removed "It's very funny, as it is actually true. The french have never won a battle". This is not true. The French have a in reality won battles in the past. Reference any Napoleonic history.

This is no longer a working google bomb —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.91.177.9 (talk) 21:13, 29 January 2011 (UTC)

Possible Google Bomb

When you Google, "StalkerNet" the first hit is the MTU Online Directory. The two have no correlation, and Michigan Tech does not refer to the directory as StalkerNet.

Cookie Defender (talk) 23:01, 18 April 2011 (UTC)

As an MTU alumni from back in the day, I can say that the directory has a long history of being referred to by that name extending into the pre-google era. No, I can't back it up :D, but it is what everyone on campus refers to the directory as even now... dunno. 141.114.213.9 (talk) 20:18, 22 August 2011 (UTC)

Article needs credible references

I have checked the sources cited and many do not meet the standards of credible references for Misplaced Pages. They're personal blogs, personal opinions on Google answer, contents published on questionable pages such as commercial sites that aren't notable. Cantaloupe2 (talk) 08:01, 1 September 2011 (UTC)

SEO contests are not google bombs

The page mentions two SEO contests as examples of google bombs, but although those contests may have used link-text techniques, they were not specifically attempts at google bombing. -- ~~ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.85.78.174 (talk) 13:38, 9 November 2011 (UTC)

Google bomb about defining an english person

Apparrently googling "Define an english person defines the wikipedia page for Cunt according to this article. http://www.zdnet.com/blog/london/google-8216glitch-returns-swearing-if-you-8216define-an-english-person/1631 124.170.55.254 (talk) 04:55, 18 December 2011 (UTC)

It's not been identified as a Googlebomb yet, also please remember to post new messages at the bottom :) --andy4789 · (talk? contribs?) Xmas! 01:00, 22 December 2011 (UTC)

"What defines an English person"

As of yet, this has not been identified as a googlebomb - so please do not add this case to the list. Thanks. --andy4789 · (talk? contribs?) Xmas! 00:59, 22 December 2011 (UTC)

google bombs

the google bombs listed don't work since they are on this page Scientific Alan (talk) 02:04, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

Googlebombing as harassment

Another use, which might be argued as political but really is much more directed and personal than that, is to use the process as a way to harass people, notably bloggers but not needfully limited to that.

Here is a specific case detailed out, but which actually involves multiple targets of a convicted domestic terrorist by the name of Brett Kimberlin:
Convicted Bomber Brett Kimberlin, Neal Rauhauser, Ron Brynaert, and Their Campaign of Political Terrorism
http://patterico.com/2012/05/25/convicted-bomber-brett-kimberlin-neal-rauhauser-ron-brynaert-and-their-campaign-of-political-terrorism/
The googlebombing is only a specific sub-part of the story, which is a pretty obnoxious tale in itself.

Misplaced Pages links appearing first in search because of references on bottom of pages

I think the person who wrote this thought that a page with many links on it gets higher in search results, but that's actually a page with many links to it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by AleksanderVatov (talkcontribs) 21:55, 11 August 2012 (UTC)

Mitt Romney "Completely Wrong" bomb

Someone should write something about this. Seems important enough to warrant a mention here. --Mr. Mario (talk) 04:59, 11 October 2012 (UTC)

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New Example: Clinton image for Pathological Lying - Add?

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What to call this?

When I googled "rhett and link webby awards 2015", a photoshopped picture of them kissing came up. It links to an "article" that makes an erroneous and brazen claim that they are engaged... I think this happened because of the heavy use of keywords on the page. Either way, it's pretty strange and unusual that it's so high in the results. I know it's not a googlebomb but what is it classified as? I have not found a term describing this. Thanks. Dorianha Bogelund (talk) 11:39, 11 March 2018 (UTC)

Probably an SEO strategy around keyword stuffing. Dietsociety (talk) 15:53, 16 October 2022 (UTC)

New (geeky) googlebomb

According to google, git is terrible, but wget can do no wrong. Search "wget is terrible" 72.74.131.76 (talk) 14:36, 20 May 2020 (UTC)

4th wall break?

"Since no later than 21 June 2015, the first result in a Google search for "miserable failure" is this article."

Are we allowed to say that kind of thing? Misplaced Pages usually refers to itself in 3rd person, even in its own article Polishedrelish (talk) 04:19, 28 April 2023 (UTC)

Amber Heard Google Bomb?

Can someone consider the merit of an Amber Heard Google Bomb?

After the Depp Vs. Heard trial, if someone was to search the word "perjury", the first several images that appeared were of Amber Heard, this happened for several months after the trial results. MrScottBull (talk) 16:12, 26 May 2024 (UTC)

N vintners j

idly hmm 2409:408C:AD0C:73BE:518:6A0F:ACB1:5945 (talk) 05:48, 31 July 2024 (UTC)

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