What is a Google Bomb?

[RockHardCore]

Ignorant - I know

[rosesaylavee]

1. I don't know - but apparently 'we' are doing one!

woo hoo! :shrug:

[meegbear]

2. Click link below for definition ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_bomb

[SteppingRazor]

3. Wikipedia is your friend:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_bomb

"Google bomb or Googlewash is Internet slang for a certain kind of attempt to influence the ranking (called PageRank) of a given page in results returned by the Google search engine, often with humorous or political intentions. Due to the way that Google's algorithm works, a page will be ranked higher if the sites that link to that page use consistent anchor text. A Google bomb is created if a large number of sites link to the page in this manner. Google bomb is used both as a verb and a noun. The phrase "Google bombing" was added to the New Oxford American Dictionary in May 2005."

Basically, google bombing is why typing "miserable failure" into the google search engine leads straight to George Bush's official White House biography

[Generic Other]

4. As only a dummie can explain

To get to the top of a google search, a bunch of folks need to search the same keyword and click on the same link. Then it directs all other searchers to that site.

Does that make sense?