Amanda Righetti

Sunday, June 27, 2004

Weapons of mass destructions: time to google bomb


What's a Google bomb?

According to this article, it goes something like:

Google Bombs were conceived last April as part of a brilliant gag by Adam Mathes. In his own words:

"Google is unique among search engines in that while it almost always shows you pages that have the exact keywords you are looking for, occasionally it will show you pages that don't have those keywords, but other pages linked to that page with those words.

I first discovered this when searching for internet rockstar, which turned up Ben's page. [editor: Adam is referring to internet rockstar Ben Brown] At the time though, he did not actually have that phrase on his page however the legions of teeny-bopper blogger morons who linked to him always used that phrase in their links."

Adam identified a critical loophole in Google's algorithm. This article I'm writing may be about Google Bombs... but if enough sites linked to it using the phrase "Aunt Jemima," then this article might come up as the first search result for "Aunt Jemima." In other words, the linker can impact the Google Rank of the linkee.


Why am I talking about Google bombing? Ahem, I'm trying to increase the ranking of Aging Youth Productions in any Google search. Those with blogs? Help out by pasting the word, 'Aging Youth Productions' in any of your posts. Those without blogs just click on the link.

Nothing is up yet. I'm just trying to increase the ranking in Google searches. Thanks!

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