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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 teslar · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Heresy. Anything related to one of the sites which are lucky enough to earn their own link on the main page of /. is always /.-worthy.

    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 ;)

  2. Died in a * accident by kasperd · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Google will actually let you search for Died in a * accident. If you do so you can see what words people put in there. Right now the fourth result is actually "Died in a blogging accident" (right after three car accidents). I have used that to find out what might be the missing word in other sentences like Grab your * and double click or Either you are with us or you are with the *. Even more interesting if combined with the - operator to filter out the obvious possibilities.

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  3. WHAT WERE THE TWO RESULTS? by exhilaration · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Damn it, why hasn't anyone asked what the original two results were? Is it even possible to get that information anymore?