An entertaining moment
Go to Google’s homepage, search for “miserable failure” and click I’m Feeling Lucky. This was created by something called a Google Bomb. (Edit: it doesn’t work any more)
Go to Google’s homepage, search for “miserable failure” and click I’m Feeling Lucky. This was created by something called a Google Bomb. (Edit: it doesn’t work any more)
That’s great. You silly people at Google, always trying to make fun of Bush.
Just to clarify, The Google did not purposely do this. A bunch of people on the internets created links to that website with the phrase “miserable failure” in them, and our webcrawlers automatically picked up on that.
I know that. But I do like how you refer to yourself and your company as “The Google.”
Just to yank Alan’s chain, it’s worth pointing out that this was created via a Google Bomb in about 2001.
Alright, I’ll yank back. Take a look at this history of Google bombing. It states that the first known Google bombs came in 2001 (some guy made “talentless hack” point to his friend), but that the “miserable failure” bomb started on 27 October 2003 at the Old Fashioned Patriot blog. For more information, look at the Snopes page on the bomb.
Regardless of how out-of-date I am on the Google bombing phenomenon, this concept is new to me and presumably new to at least some of my readers.