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Google Juice

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the matter-of-time dept.

mpawlo writes: "I guess it is time to start using them bookmarks again, since favourite search engine Google seems to be on the verge of Altavista doom and search engine chaos. BBC News reports of Google bombing (often referred to as 'Google juice' by the infamous Crackmonkey subscribers). 'The users have found a way to "bomb" Google to improve the rankings of particular webpages, and ensure a site is near the top of the results for particular search phrases.' There is also the sport of Google Whacking affecting your search results."

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  1. How to Google Whack... by kenthorvath · · Score: 4, Funny
    Step 1: www.google.com

    Step 2: "autistic paraplegic donkey porn"

    Step 3: I'm feeling lucky

    Step 4: Google Whack

  2. Re:Google Whacking by TheGreenLantern · · Score: 3, Funny

    If "That" ever does become a sport, I'll be like a superstar and shit.

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  3. Re:Try using unique words by gazbo · · Score: 5, Funny
    From the article:
    He first used a bomb to ensure that whenever anyone typed the phrase "talentless hack" into Google they got the site of his friend Andy Pressman.
    ...replacing Jon Katz who had held the position previously.

  4. Re:Paradox: Publishing a googlewhack destroys it by junkgui · · Score: 3, Funny

    who would have guessed that immolated polyp would only yeild one page... oops... sorry...

  5. Heisenwhack by Plutor · · Score: 4, Funny

    This phenomenon is known as a "heisenwhack", after famed theorist Werner Heisenberg. A heisenwhack compensator has been developed, however. Adding the term "-googlewhack" to your search will fairly reliably eliminate these kind of hits.

  6. Some of you sound like Gollum by medcalf · · Score: 4, Funny

    Mmmm...Google my precious...musn't let the nasty bloggers get it, no, not my Google precious, no...

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  7. Re:Not as bad as all that by JamesOfTheDesert · · Score: 3, Funny
    Over a year ago, Wired News ran a story about how searching on "dumb motherfucker' returned a George Bush site back as #1. This did not require massive coordination; it was one person with a page that linked the words to the Bush site.

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  8. Re:Not quite as bad as it seems by BlueUnderwear · · Score: 3, Funny
    Once you think about how Google's rankings work, you can easily figure out how to game the system. That's why Dave Winer (token head of all webloggers) is usually the first result of a search on 'Dave'.

    Oh the irony. The second link for "Dave" does indeed go to Dave Whiner's "scripting news" site, but the topmost article on that page says that "google bombing" is just a phantasy...

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  9. If you type... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    If you type "Free Porn", then you can whack your google all you want!

  10. How to spoil the fun for everybody by John+Jorsett · · Score: 3, Funny

    Since googlewhacking requires that you find just one page on the web that has two English words:

    1. Obtain dictionary in electronic form.
    2. Separate the words from the definitions
    3. Publish to web page
    4. Publish to another web page
    5. If feeling particularly cruel, publish to additional web pages.
    6. Wait for hate mail