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Google-bombing!
May. 26th, 2004 07:51 pmSo I read a newspaper article about this thing called google-bombing. What is it? Well, for those of you who don't know already, it's when you get a whole lot of people to scatter a certain word all over their sites, and then link to one specific site. Since google uses links to find sites, this method will cause the linked-to site to turn up whenever the chosen word is entered as a search. Get enough people to link enough and you can force it to be the top result. *grins*
The word "waffles" now gets you politician John Kerry's website as the first result, which doesn't actually contain the word "waffles" at all. It also now gives you a link up at the top about the google-bombing prank that resulted in this. *chuckles*
Anyhow, I find this vastly amusing. I think it would be fun for all of my LJ friends to google-bomb something odd. Somebody suggest a suitable site, and a fairly obscure word, (defenestration comes to mind) and see if we can...
In other news... less than two days until I set off for CONduit! Heeeeeeee! And my firecat costume is now complete. (The ears are spiffy! Though it's far from perfect. A Mark II version will probably be made eventually.) As is my gryphon outfit, including the heraldic gryphon in my surcoat, which I ended up having to paint on by hand. Coudn't afford embroidery, and the computer lab is closed so I coudln't do the iron-on thing. But apparently painting is more authentic anyhow, or so I'm told.
The word "waffles" now gets you politician John Kerry's website as the first result, which doesn't actually contain the word "waffles" at all. It also now gives you a link up at the top about the google-bombing prank that resulted in this. *chuckles*
Anyhow, I find this vastly amusing. I think it would be fun for all of my LJ friends to google-bomb something odd. Somebody suggest a suitable site, and a fairly obscure word, (defenestration comes to mind) and see if we can...
In other news... less than two days until I set off for CONduit! Heeeeeeee! And my firecat costume is now complete. (The ears are spiffy! Though it's far from perfect. A Mark II version will probably be made eventually.) As is my gryphon outfit, including the heraldic gryphon in my surcoat, which I ended up having to paint on by hand. Coudn't afford embroidery, and the computer lab is closed so I coudln't do the iron-on thing. But apparently painting is more authentic anyhow, or so I'm told.
