Are there any google bombers here today?

[lonestarnot]

:evilgrin:

[NightWatcher]

1. o oo what are we gonna do today?

[lonestarnot]

6. check your pm

[glowing]

2. What do you want to start?

[gaiilonfong]

3. ok what do you want us to do

I am at your service

[lonestarnot]

21. Well what is taking you so long?

:evilgrin:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/05/us/politics/05palin.html?bl&ex=1223352000&en=97a61d8ecb16e341&ei=5087%0A

[scarletwoman]

4. I thought I'd read that it doesn't work anymore. (nt)

[lonestarnot]

7. Phoey, where did you read that?

[scarletwoman]

11. It was several months ago, here on DU. I didn't pay a lot of attention because I've never tried to

"google bomb". But I could swear I saw a thread about how Google had reconfigured something so that people couldn't google bomb anymore.

Tell you what, I'll go do a google search about it and get back to you. :)

sw

[lonestarnot]

12. way yat scarletwoman!

:hug:

[scarletwoman]

15. Here, I found something:

Google Bombs Explained
The End of the Google Bomb?

In January of 2007, Google announced that they'd tweaked their search algorithm to remove most Google bombs. Indeed, the day they announced this, the "miserable failure" bomb was no longer working. The top results for that search all pointed to articles about Google bombs.

Is this the end of Google bombs? Probably not. Although this algorithm tweak eliminated many Google bombs, it did not eliminate all of them, and it is possible that future pranksters will simply tweak their strategy to counter the algorithm changes.

The thread I remembered seeing about this had some explanation about how much more complicated and difficult it is to do a successful google bomb now. I also know that I really haven't heard of any google bomb triumphs for a long time.

sw

[lonestarnot]

16. Is this the end of Google bombs? Probably not.

:evilgrin:

[scarletwoman]

23. Something more recent:

Google Announces The Death Of The "Google Bomb"

Bloggers, take note: the old-school Google bomb is no more.

That's right, the online behemoth best known for its search engine says that it has rejiggered its legendary and proprietary technology so that online efforts by bloggers to manipulate its top-secret search algorithm to create cheeky, offensive and decidedly off-message answers to searches will no longer work.

"It was fun" while it lasted, said Rick Klau, a member of the Google strategic partner development content acquisition team, at a search engine optimization training session for political bloggers in Washington, D.C., this afternoon. But, he said, "Google bombs don't work anymore."

Indeed, the changes to eliminate Google bombs were instituted more than a year-and-a-half ago. But that hasn't stopped political bloggers of the left and right, who have announced (or worried over) fresh efforts to manipulate search engine rankings as recently as this May (see here) and June (see here, and here).

This is probably the article that I saw posted on DU, btw.

sw

[lonestarnot]

26. Well maybe someone will be very creative!

:evilgrin:

[scarletwoman]

29. Yes, I suppose *someone* will.

:)

sw

[TreasonousBastard]

20. Did you google "miserable failure"? (Results are unbombed)

[scarletwoman]

24. Yup, it just leads to articles about how the "miserable failure" bomb no longer works. nt

[lonestarnot]

28. nope and you give up too easily.

[Midlodemocrat]

27. It doesn't. Pity, too.

[Narkos]

5. Little McCain/Keating or Palin/AIP?

[uppityperson]

8. Would you like me to add something to my posts too?

[lonestarnot]

9. Wouldn't hurt!

check your p.m.

[lonestarnot]

10. Tee hee!

http://www.televisiontunes.com/Maverick.html

[Contrary1]

13. I'm in! PM me. n/t

[Generic Other]

14. you naughty girl

I am sitting here trying to guess...

:)

[lonestarnot]

17. fwb!

:applause:

[vanderBeth]

18. GoogleBombing?

???

[lonestarnot]

19. .

http://www.televisiontunes.com/Maverick.html

[Subdivisions]

22. I do search engine optimization for a living. Can I help? n/t

[lonestarnot]

25. check your pm

In a minute.

[otherlander]

30. Before I read that article

I was planning to vote for Obama, but reluctantly.

Now I think he's fucking awesome!

Hey, Obama, just don't wear sandals, ok?
:rofl:

[lpbk2713]

31. Did you know that comedian Rush Limbaugh is a junkie pedophile?

I know it's got to be true because I saw it on the Internets. :eyes: