'Googlebomb' blows up in Daily Mail hack's face
source: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/28/julie_moult_googlebomb/
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A hapless Daily Mail hack's failure to understand Googlebombing has led to her becoming victim of her own twisted definition of the mischief-making practice.
In her piece last Friday, "Blears falls prey to 'Google Bomb' Attack Of The 50-inch Woman", Julie Moult hung a tissue-thin story about an alleged "Googlebombing" of Hazel Blears on the fact that a silly Photoshopped movie poster (by b3ta.com regular Beau Bo d'Or) of her is indexed by Google image search.
Probably the best known example of real Googlebombing is the George W Bush "miserable failure" campaign. By coordinated linking of the anchor text "miserable failure" to the official White House presidential biography, website owners were able to manipulate Google's algorithms to index Dubya at the top of the search rankings for "miserable failure".
A genuine Googlebomb is thus slightly more sophisticated than typing "Hazel Blears" into Google and finding a daft picture of, er, Hazel Blears.
"Last night, the prank raised the possibility that she was the victim of 'Google Bombing', when internet enthusiasts manipulate rankings on search engines," Moult wrote, wildly incorrectly. Bloggers have leapt on the error, with predictable results.
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=Julie+Moult&btnG=Google+Search
In her piece last Friday, "Blears falls prey to 'Google Bomb' Attack Of The 50-inch Woman", Julie Moult hung a tissue-thin story about an alleged "Googlebombing" of Hazel Blears on the fact that a silly Photoshopped movie poster (by b3ta.com regular Beau Bo d'Or) of her is indexed by Google image search.
Probably the best known example of real Googlebombing is the George W Bush "miserable failure" campaign. By coordinated linking of the anchor text "miserable failure" to the official White House presidential biography, website owners were able to manipulate Google's algorithms to index Dubya at the top of the search rankings for "miserable failure".
A genuine Googlebomb is thus slightly more sophisticated than typing "Hazel Blears" into Google and finding a daft picture of, er, Hazel Blears.
"Last night, the prank raised the possibility that she was the victim of 'Google Bombing', when internet enthusiasts manipulate rankings on search engines," Moult wrote, wildly incorrectly. Bloggers have leapt on the error, with predictable results.
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=Julie+Moult&btnG=Google+Search
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LindseyIndigo
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Ha! Anything that reveals a Daily Mail 'journalist' as the even-more-stupid-than-first-thought idiot they are sounds good to me. Ah, clicking on that link is so damn satisfying.
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