Wednesday, January 31, 2007

Google bombs

With the wild popularity of the Google search engine, this was only a matter of time. It appears that techies have found a way to tweak Google search results so that certain buzzwords, when searched, yield certain comical and/or politically motivated results. For example, until this particular bomb was corrected, a Google search of “miserable failure” would yield a link to the Whitehouse website. A search for “French military victories” yields a link that says “Your search — French military victories — did not match any documents.”

While the bombs referenced above are harmless, I wonder what kinds of nefarious uses of Google bombing are going on?

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