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Google Defuses Googlebombs

Posted by kdawson on from the French-military-victories-still-works dept.

John C. Worsley writes "Google announced today a modification to their search algorithm that minimizes well-known googlebombing exploits. Searches on 'miserable failure' and their ilk no longer bring up political targets. The Google blogger writes: '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.'"

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  1. Finally by RyoShin · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'm glad they took care of this horrible issue. You have no idea how hard it was for me to search for waffles before this!

  2. Please clarify by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Are you saying that page rank is a miserable failure or not?

  3. Googlebombs... by __aaclcg7560 · · Score: 1, Funny

    I think Google has a bigger problem than puny Googlebombs.

  4. Re:Easier Solution by Dr.+Eggman · · Score: 4, Funny

    I don't know, I've been pretty lucky with it.

    Needed a digital calender, IFLed, now I've got a Google Calender setup.
    Needed a new email service, IFLed, now I've got G-mail!
    Needed a homepage that would host my many RSS feeds, IFLed, now I've got a Google Homepage!
    Needed a desktop organizer, IFLed, now I've got Google Desktop!

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  5. The SCO search still works by weeboo0104 · · Score: 1, Funny

    The search for SCO still works.

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  6. Re:Well... by VWJedi · · Score: 3, Funny

    Also "Miserable Failure" still works in MSN.

    You expected Google to fix MSN?

  7. Re:Google broke my intarweb... by rthille · · Score: 2, Funny

    Oh Crap, forgot to check "Post Anonymously" Doh!

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  8. Re:Well... by hachete · · Score: 2, Funny

    somebody has to

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  9. Tom Smykowski by anaesthetica · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'd mod you down, but there's no "-1, Some Jackass Jumping To Conclusions"

    You know, I had an idea like that once. A long time ago. It was a "Jump to Conclusions" mod. You see, it would be this mod input that you would put on the bottom of each comment, and it would have different conclusions available in it that you could jump to.

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