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Google Admits Problems Dealing with the Googlebombing

pittfall — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 02:17:27 +0000

Google claimed back in January that the Googlebomb was no longer a concern, however, today on the Official Google Blog, Marissa Mayer noted: If you do a Google search on the word [failure] or the phrase [miserable failure], the top result is currently the White House’s official biographical page for President Bush. We’ve received some [...]

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Google Admits Problems Dealing with the Googlebombing

What is Google Not Saying?

pittfall — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 01:58:35 +0000

Recently, Google addressed concerns with the concept of link bombing (also know as Googlebombing) with adjustments to how they rank irrelevant results for useless queries. This, of course, sent the social networks within the SEO community buzzing with one of two major responses: 1. What about the collateral damage? 2. What about our pointless tests [...]

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What is Google Not Saying?

The Death of the Googlebomb

pittfall — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 02:34:44 +0000

First, what is a Googlebomb? Technically, a “Googlebomb” refers to a prank where people attempt to cause someone else’s site to rank for an obscure or meaningless query. Googlebombs very rarely happen for common queries, because the lack of any relevant results for that phrase is part of why a Googlebomb can work. (from Webmaster [...]