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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. Re:French military victories by Liberaltarian · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Don't you mean French military defeats? *ducks*

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  2. Re:French military victories by slcdb · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Wow! This has got to be a first! Even though the parent was the one who ducked, it ended up going over *your* head!

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