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	Remembering the First Google Bomb on Compiler
		A Google bomb (also called a link bomb) is a technique where somebody uses a specific term to link to another page, usually a personal web page.
		Google was just emerging as a force at the time, so the bulk of our business was helping our customers get their scores higher there.
		But rumor had it that this was an inside job by someone at Google and not a SEO type Bomb.
	blog.wired.com /monkeybites/2007/01/earlier_today_m.html (964 words)

	Google bomb - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Google bomb is used both as a verb and a noun.
		Google bombs often end their life by becoming too popular or well known: they typically end up being mentioned in multiple well-regarded web journals, which themselves then knock the bomb off the top spot.
		Other large political figures have been targeted for Google bombs: on January 6, 2006, Yooter reported that Tony Blair is now indexed in the U.S. and UK versions of Google for the keyword 'liar'.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Google_bomb (2218 words)

	What is Google Bombing? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		A Google bomb or Google wash is an attempt to influence the ranking of a given site in results returned by the Google search engine.
		Ironically, Google bombs often end their life by being too popular or well known, thereby attaining a mention in well regarded web journals and knocking the bomb off the top spot.
		Google has defended its algorithms as simply a reflection of the opinion on the Web, saying that it is not damaging the overall quality of its services.
	www.juiceenewsdaily.com /0505/news/google_bomb.html (1698 words)

	Google Time Bomb - Will Weblogs blow up the world's favorite search engine? - Microcontent News, a Corante.com Microblog (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Google Bombs were conceived last April as part of a brilliant gag by Adam Mathes.
		Several bloggers have already followed suit, and just a few days after the Justice Bomb was lit, five of the top ten results for R Kelly videotape are already weblogs with her Google Bomb.
		Google Bombs also tap the natural human instinct for reciprocity: "you help me with my bomb, and I'll help you with yours." [1] Most of the Google Bombing to date has been Ego Bombing anyway, which lends itself especially well to reciprocation.
	www.microcontentnews.com /articles/googlebombs.htm (2541 words)

	Deconstructing Google bombs
		Google bombing is a collective hyperlinking strategy intended to change the search results of a specific term or phrase.
		Of interest with regard to Google bombs is the condition of "collective action bordering on social movement" [3] but which is not a social movement.
		The "Jew" Google bomb was mobilized very specifically to displace jewwatch.com as the number one ranked search result for the term "Jew" and therefore does meet the specific solidarity part of Melucci’s social movement definition.
	www.firstmonday.org /issues/issue10_10/tatum/index.html (3005 words)

	Search Engine Article : Google Bomb (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		This bombing was started at http://bombardeo.blogspot.com because of the company's announcement to limit download transfer to 4 GB per month (for 512 kbit/s connections).
		The bomb was perpetrated at the suggestion of Ausculture for reasons unknown.
		This bomb was suggested by weezil and executed by a number of Australian bloggers in protest of Ruddock's protracted political smear of the now exonerated Mamdouh Habib.
	www.rdpl.com /seo-india/Google_Bomb.html (3099 words)

	How bloggers game Google
		Google is the drunken, incompetent sheriff in the wild, wild West, and SEOs are the hired guns.
		Google is conspicuously rich, even though most of the blame for the SEO industry rests on their shoulders.
		Google's algorithms are a huge problem for many who are involved with the web, except for those who exploit these algorithms for private profit, over the objections of those who are victimized by these exploits.
	www.google-watch.org /gaming.html (2719 words)

	Urban Legends Reference Pages: Miserable Failure
		A 'Google bombing' effort has tied the phrase 'miserable failure' to President Bush's biography in the Google search engine.
		However, in early 2007 Google changed their indexing structure so that "Google-bombing" efforts would produce highly-placed search results pointing not to the bombings' intended targets, but to "commentary, discussions, and articles" about the Google-bombing phenomenon itself.
		Thus the first result returned by a Google search on "miserable failure" now links to a BBC article about efforts to tie President Bush's name to the phrase.
	www.snopes.com /politics/bush/google.asp (608 words)

	Google Bombs Aren't So Scary
		Google "Bombs" are now going off, where web sites are influencing Google's search results by controlling where they link to and what they say in their links, according to Corante's Microcontent News site.
		Google combats these attempts by identifying what it considers to be "artificial" link structures and adjusting or eliminating their influence in the rankings.
		Google's been quite public in saying that it has to combat link spam, so it's extremely odd to then see the search engine quoted as saying Google Bombs have not been used for marketing or commercial purposes.
	searchenginewatch.com /sereport/article.php/2164611 (847 words)

	NY Times duped by Google bomb (kottke.org)
		Separately, there was an indication yesterday that Google's vaunted corporate culture may be under stress as a result of competition and the stock offering.
		A person close to the company said that Google employees had engaged in the practice of "Google bombing." A Google bomb is an attempt by a group of people to cause a particular Web page to become the first result for a search phrase.
		The "out of touch management" search indeed works as stated, but how they got from that to "Google's vaunted corporate culture may be under stress as a result of competition and the stock offering" left me baffled.
	www.kottke.org /04/06/nytimes-press-bomb (342 words)

	BBC News \| SCI/TECH \| Google hit by link bombers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The users have found a way to "bomb" Google to improve the rankings of particular webpages, and ensure a site is near the top of the results for particular search phrases.
		Before now Google's method of ranking webpages was thought to make it largely immune to the tactics that many businesses use to improve their position in web searches.
		Some fear it is only a matter of time before businesses start using the bombing tactic to influence their standing in search results.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/sci/tech/1868395.stm (525 words)

	Google Bomb Defense Service
		Google Bombs, blog bombs and misguided justice bombs can rapidly threaten your company's good name.
		We use that knowledge in our blog bomb and google bomb defense service to create a strategy to hilight positive news about your business connected to your company name.
		A Google bomb, or blog bomb, is simply a linking effort aimed at getting negative information to rank well in search engines.
	www.intralinkinc.com /google-bomb-defense.html (403 words)

	Google defuse the Google bomb
		bombing and was followed by our very own Tony Blair being bombed and consequently ranking high on the index for the term "liar".
		bombing has previously concentrated on terms which are far removed and of little relevance.
		Google's search results are generated by computer programs which rank web pages largely by examining the number and relative popularity of the sites that link to them.
	www.bigmouthmedia.com /live/articles/google-diffuse-the-google-bomb.asp/3427 (408 words)

	The Hindu Business Line : Bush struck by `Google bomb' on the Net
		IF you are one among those who hold that Google is, by far, the best search engine around and you coincidentally believe that the US presidency of Mr George W. Bush is an unmitigated disaster for just about everybody on this planet, you might want to check this out.
		Google's PageRank algorithm works in such a way that a page is ranked higher if the sites that link to that page all use consistent anchor text.
		Google-bombing, incidentally, is quite different from spamdexing, which involves a dishonest attempt to modify HTML pages to increase the chance of their being placed higher up in search engine results or to influence the category to which the page is assigned.
	www.thehindubusinessline.com /2005/11/06/stories/2005110602410500.htm (724 words)

	Wired News: Dropping the Bomb on Google
		He argued that Google should be able to filter its search results, categorize offensive content and reorder the results accordingly.
		Along with countless other website owners and bloggers, he encouraged a Google bombing campaign, a technique in which links are directed toward a preferred site to raise its ranking.
		The company won the approval of the Anti-Defamation League, which argues that Google is not responsible for its rankings, according to an April 22 press release.
	www.wired.com /news/culture/0,1284,63380,00.html (943 words)

	WorldNetDaily: Bush labeled 'a--hole' in new Google bomb (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		President Bush is the target of a new "Google bomb" where he's labeled an "a-- hole" in a vulgar filmstrip when the graphic term is entered into the popular search engine.
		A Google bomb is an attempt to influence the ranking of a given site in results returned by the Google search engine.
		However, WND noticed that after corresponding with Google about the phenomenon, the obscene video was not always the first result when "a--hole" was used as one word, though it was always the No. 1 result during the first half of this week.
	www.worldnetdaily.com /news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=46332 (1004 words)

	Will Weblogs ruin Google's search engine? - By John Hiler - Slate Magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Google improved upon this system by taking into account the links that connect the billions of pages on the World Wide Web.
		Last month, Weblogger Brig Eaton floated the idea, saying that her father would be willing to pay to get his site Google Bombed into the No. 1 search result for "Santa Cruz real estate." A week and a few (free) links later, www.santacruzrealty.net had moved from the No. 189 Google result to No. 39.
		As a result, most Google Bombs defuse in about a month, as blog posts are archived.
	slate.msn.com /?id=2063699 (1341 words)

	EFF: Breaking News
		Google has refused to comply with a subpoena for those records, based in part on its concern for its users' privacy.
		Google has cited its concern for user privacy as a reason for not complying with the subpoena, in addition to the unreasonable burden that compliance would place on Google and the proprietary nature of its query database.
		While EFF applauds Google for defending its users' privacy in this case, the current controversy only highlights the broader privacy problem: Google logs all of the searches you make, and most if not all of those queries are personally identifiable via cookies, IP addresses, and Google account information.
	www.eff.org /news/archives/2006_01.php (2370 words)

	Alston Grove » Google bomb
		A Google bomb is an attempt to influence the ranking of a site in Google’s search results.
		One of the most famous Google bombs was a campaign by Adam Mathes to get the search results of “talentless hack” to list the website of his friend Andy Pressman.
		The interesting thing about Google bombs is that once they become popular, people talk about them, and the bomb is knocked out of the top spot.
	www.alstongrove.com /posts/74 (235 words)

	Silicon Valley Watcher--reporting on the business and culture of innovation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		I mentioned it for the first time the other day to a couple of friends and they urged me that I should publish it and not sit on it because it is better to get it out earlier than later.
		Google is buying a large user base, and a momentum.
		I am not trying to play the devil's advocate here, but with the so called social-sites or online communities there is always a risk of users hanging around for a while and later deserting it for newer cooler stuffs, Orkut is one I can think of here.
	www.siliconvalleywatcher.com /mt/archives/2005/02/is_this_a_googl.php (2024 words)

	Wired News: Kerry Gets Google-Bombed
		He also was bombed last year with the phrase "dumb motherfucker," though that search now leads to a Wired News article on the subject.
		Google and other search engines have been criticized before for not cracking down on the Google-bombing practice.
		Google executives said bombing tricks don't generate revenue.
	www.wired.com /news/politics/0,1283,63557,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_2 (680 words)

	Skeptico: Google bomb ID
		Google bomb ID From God is for Suckers I learn that Leiter Reports is proposing to Google bomb “Intelligent Design”:
		If you’ve never heard of this, the Google bomb is (in this case) an attempt to place the National Center for Science Education’s excellent "Intelligent Design" Not Accepted by Most Scientists page at the top of any Google searches for the phrase “Intelligent Design”.
		Also, the article in the google bomb link is a very good analysis of ID. If someone looks up ID online, we're making sure they get good information.
	skeptico.blogs.com /skeptico/2005/08/google_bomb_id.html (2723 words)

	Legofish :: Google Bomb
		In short, a google bomb is a way to influence search results for targetted keywords.
		Within a week, hundreds of blogs and websites had taken part and the google bomb exploded, creating a frenzy of media hype.
		Today, a year on, the google bomb is still working, and it is still used as an example of the power of blogs whenever there is a discussion on Iranian blogs.
	legofish.com /google (496 words)

	Will Weblogs ruin Google's search engine? - By John Hiler - Slate Magazine
		Google improved upon this system by taking into account the links that connect the billions of pages on the World Wide Web.
		Last month, Weblogger Brig Eaton floated the idea, saying that her father would be willing to pay to get his site Google Bombed into the No. 1 search result for "Santa Cruz real estate." A week and a few (free) links later, www.santacruzrealty.net had moved from the No. 189 Google result to No. 39.
		As a result, most Google Bombs defuse in about a month, as blog posts are archived.
	www.slate.com /?id=2063699 (1023 words)

	Google Bomb
		A few hours later the bomb starts working and coming up in the results of the first page for googling the term "arabian gulf" with thousands of Iranian bloggers contributing to this movement
		After only one day, I found out that google has indexed 10000 new pages using only the term "persian gulf" adding to 1 600 000 other websites.
		Google bomb story in INTL news by Joe Broadhurst
	home.gwu.edu /~alikhosh/google.htm (505 words)

	Bombing for Choice: Geekery Today 2005-02-01 :: Rad Geek People's Daily (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Once you’ve joined in the bombing campaign, let me know about it (by e-mail or by TrackBack), and I’ll be glad to give you a shout-out in a later update on the campaign.
		Neither had I. (Well, it sounded familiar) It turns out that Google Bombing means to legitimately exploit the fact that google treats links to pages as popularity votes for those pages.
		Since your bombing for choice campaign started because anti-choice roevwade.org was the first google result..
	www.radgeek.com /gt/2005/02/01/bombing_for (1837 words)

	Google Community: Google Bomb: Waffles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The top result is the result of a "Google bomb", making a particular web page, such as johnkerry.com, appear as the top search result for a search search term, such as "waffles".
		Google bombs have a short, but glorious, tradition.
		Google has repeatedly stated it will not get involved to "fix" the bombs, so what can a candidate do if he or she is a victim?
	www.googlecommunity.com /about62.html (1063 words)

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