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10/26/2006: "Google Bombs"

I group of liberal slanted bloggers are using a tactic called Google Bombing to manipulate search results for Republican cadidates. A group from MyDD.com was referenced in the article. Mr. Bowers, a contributer to MyDD.com, asks this of his fellow bloggers: “When you discuss any of these races in the future, please, use the same embedded hyperlink when reprinting the Republican’s name. Then, I suppose, we will see what happens.”

You can read more about Mr. Bowers and MyDD.com by reading the articled linked to in the hyperlinks of this post.

If I'm not mistaken, Google Bombing simply involves taking text, and hyperlinking it to the website. Its usually pretty accurate to think that a hyperlink of a word will link to a site with more information, or whatever-the-word-is official site. By creating links to something different than the text, you can manipulate the way google displays its search results. A well-known Google Bomb of President Bush used words like "miserable failure" to link directly to official White House websites.

This would really only work if its done several times throughout the internet.