Anti-Googlebomb post
Mar. 21st, 2006 03:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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matcha at http://matcha.livejournal.com/417878.html.
I don't usually do this kind of thing, but I checked it out and unfortunately it's true.
The anti-semitic website "Jew Watch" has Googlebombed the query "Jew" to link to their hate-site. Translation: Google ranks sites by hits and link-references, and the top-ranking (non-sponsored) site retrieved is not only first on the list, but also that to which a user is automatically directed in an "I'm Feeling Lucky" search. The art of Googlebombing consists of spamming the link with a specific reference across the Internet; a prime example of this is "miserable failure" leading to GW Bush's White House biography.
To combat this, please post the following HTML as often as possible: (nix the asteriks)
<*a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jew">Jew<*/a>
This notice was originally posted in April of 2004, and the hate site's still on top. So spread the word!
If you go ahead and try the search on Google, btw, you'll see that Google has added an interesting comment about the whole affair that comes up automatically above the offensive entry.
Jew
matcha at http://matcha.livejournal.com/417878.html.I don't usually do this kind of thing, but I checked it out and unfortunately it's true.
The anti-semitic website "Jew Watch" has Googlebombed the query "Jew" to link to their hate-site. Translation: Google ranks sites by hits and link-references, and the top-ranking (non-sponsored) site retrieved is not only first on the list, but also that to which a user is automatically directed in an "I'm Feeling Lucky" search. The art of Googlebombing consists of spamming the link with a specific reference across the Internet; a prime example of this is "miserable failure" leading to GW Bush's White House biography.
To combat this, please post the following HTML as often as possible: (nix the asteriks)
<*a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jew">Jew<*/a>
This notice was originally posted in April of 2004, and the hate site's still on top. So spread the word!
If you go ahead and try the search on Google, btw, you'll see that Google has added an interesting comment about the whole affair that comes up automatically above the offensive entry.
Jew
