Blogger Launches 'Google Bomb' At McCain

[TrogL]

http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/06/22/1534234

"A liberal blogger has launched a 'Google bomb' project aimed at boosting Google search results for nine news articles showing Sen. John McCain in a negative light. The Computerworld article notes: 'Chris Bowers, managing editor of the progressive blog OpenLeft, is launching the Google bombs by encouraging bloggers to embed Web links to the nine news stories about McCain in their blogs, which helps raise their ranking in Google search results. Bowers is reprising a similar Google bombing effort he undertook in 2006 against 52 different congressional candidates. "Obviously, it is manipulating, but search engines are not public forums and unless you act to use them for your own benefit, your opponent's information is going to get out there," Bowers said.'"

Links to this: http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9101218&intsrc=hm_list

[rawtribe]

1. A quick word about Googlebombs

Thursday, January 25, 2007 at 4:16 PM
Co-written with Ryan Moulton and Kendra Carattini

We wanted to give a quick update about "Googlebombs." By improving our analysis of the link structure of the web, Google has begun minimizing the impact of many Googlebombs. Now we will typically return commentary, discussions, and articles about the Googlebombs instead. The actual scale of this change is pretty small (there are under a hundred well-known Googlebombs), but if you'd like to get more details about this topic, read on.

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2007/01/quick-word-about-googlebombs.html