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XKCD Inadvertently Causes Googlebomb

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the first-rule-of-googlebombs-is-don't-talk-about-googlebombs dept.

MrCopilot writes "As I noted yesterday (and was joined by many others)... in an offhand observation xkcd has singlehandedly changed a small section of the Internet. Changing the results from a Google search for "Died in a Blogging Accident" from 2 to (at this writing) over 7,170 in a little more than 24 hours." If you aren't reading xkcd, you're missing out.

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  1. Re:And this is just adding to it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yes! What are you, some kind of heathen?

  2. "Died in a frist psot accident" by pikine · · Score: 4, Funny

    So apparently he didn't make it, and I'm making this nth post on behalf of the would-be first poster.

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    1. Re:"Died in a frist psot accident" by Mikkeles · · Score: 2, Funny

      'Your search - "died in a coding accident" - did not match any documents.'
      so I'm safe :)

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    2. Re:"Died in a frist psot accident" by maxwell+demon · · Score: 3, Funny

      I guess you just killed your safety. Surely Google will soon pick up your comment, thus making coding accidents more dangerous.

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  3. Re:Blog writers prosecutions by Caiwyn · · Score: 5, Funny

    Considering that many people around the world have been prosecuted for their blogs, imprisoned, tortured and maybe even killed, it is not just humor, its a terrifying fact.

    I've never been a proponent of medical marijuana, but somebody needs to get this guy some weed, STAT.

  4. Re:And this is just adding to it by Arimus · · Score: 3, Funny

    "Also, the concept that observing any property of the internet within the internet can affect that property is interesting. If the choice is between reflecting on that or finishing that bloody piece of code I'm writing, I'll take the former, even if it may ultimately be pointless ;)"
    Sir,
    I must formally give you notice that you are to hand over immediately to the appropriate authorities your geek license and your /. account.
    Nothing should ever come between a geek and his code.

    (well other than pizza and coffee - but that tends to be more between the geek and the keyboard if they're messy eaters)

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  5. Re:And this is just adding to it by El+Yanqui · · Score: 5, Funny

    Also, the concept that observing any property of the internet within the internet can affect that property is interesting.

    No fair! You changed the outcome by measuring it!

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  6. Re:Wow. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    This is the most blatant Slashvertisment ever. There's already a permanent link to that terminally-humourless web comic on the front page already, does it really need an article -containing- an ad as well? Alright already, you already used that word once in the sentence already.

    That and the rest of your comment already makes you look uneducated already.
  7. Re:Blog writers prosecutions by Dr.+Cody · · Score: 3, Funny

    Don't you get it; it's a neologism, like "to disappear [someone]."

    e.g. Mr. Hammond was accidented in the shower just days after blogging about President Obama's top-secret plans to invade Canada.

  8. "Died in a Blogging Accident" by Midnight+Thunder · · Score: 2, Funny

    Do we really need to repeat "Died in a Blogging Accident" for nth time? I mean how many times do we need to state that someone "Died in a Blogging Accident"?

    Anyhow, this was another xkcd comic that had its effect: http://xkcd.com/305/

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  9. I was curious too... by rvtheace · · Score: 2, Funny

    But I just took xkcd's word for it

  10. Uhm by Cafe+Alpha · · Score: 4, Funny

    yes.

  11. Re:Died in a * accident by Beorytis · · Score: 5, Funny

    I, for one, welcome our new * overlords.

  12. Re:You're sitting on a timebomb by Strange+Quark+Star · · Score: 5, Funny

    No, I am afraid it is two now.

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  13. Re:And this is just adding to it by kylben · · Score: 5, Funny

    No, you're confusing the Uncertainty Principle with the Observer Effect Nevertheless, "heisenblogging" would still be the obvious and useful term, should anybody suggest coining it...
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  14. Died in a trolling accident by 4D6963 · · Score: 4, Funny

    In a off hand observation xkcd has single handedly changed a small section of the internet.

    Oh my God, they changed the face of the Internet! (actually they mean the Web, not the Internet as a whole, sigh). Here, let me change a (smaller) "section of the Internet" :

    Died in a trolling accident.

    Right now, doesn't return any result. And now? OMG I did it! I has teh pawar ovar tah Intarwebs!

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  15. Re:I'm Confused by skippy_twin · · Score: 2, Funny
    To paraphrase Colbert:

    I am slashdot, and so can you.
  16. Tag as "heisenblog" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    No, you're confusing the Uncertainty Principle with the Observer Effect Nevertheless, "heisenblogging" would still be the obvious and useful term, should anybody suggest coining it... Tagged "heisenblog". Everyone do your part.
  17. Re:And this is just adding to it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Results 1 - 10 of about 1,710 for heisenblog.