There is even a phrase to describe this process: "Google Bombing." http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/1868395.stm. A number of other targets have been hit, including AOL and Disney. http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/internet/09/30/column.nettrends.reut/ and http://www.computerworld.com/printthis/2002/0,4814,74566,00.html. Eric. -- Eric Goldman Marquette University Law School ericgoldman@onebox.com Personal home page: http://eric_goldman.tripod.com -----Original Message----- From: MERLYNA LIM <merlyn@bdg.centrin.net.id> Sent: Fri, 05 Dec 2003 11:20:27 +0100 To: air-l@aoir.org Subject: Re: [Air-l] miserable failure 'i am feeling lucky' button is basically referring to the first web page Google returned for your query, and only the first one. however, Google is unique among search engines, because while mostly it shows you pages that have the exact keywords you're looking for, occasionally it also shows you pages that don't have those keywords but other pages linked to that page with those keywords. and interestingly the linkers can impact the Google rank of the linkee.. This algorithm is called Google Bombs by a brilliant gag Adam Mathes. So, in the case 'miserable failure' while that page of Bush's biblio has no words of 'miserable failure', that page comes up as the page who has most links to the pages who link to it with the phrase 'miserable failure'. merlyna david silver wrote:
ok, so:
Try "miserable failure" at Google.com and hit the "I'm feeling lucky" button
two questions: 1) how cool is this? 2) does anyone know how it is done?
david