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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. 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.

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

    I, for one, welcome our new * overlords.

  5. 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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  6. 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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