Google Purges Failure Links
The phrase "Google bombing" was introduced to the New Oxford American Dictionary in May 2005. Google bombing is closely related to spamdexing, the practice of deliberately modifying HTML pages to increase the chance of their website being placed close to the beginning of search engine results, or to influence the category to which the page is assigned in a misleading or dishonest manner.
Searching for "failure" on Google.com returns President Obama's Biography as the top result.
This is one example of a Googlebomb. Google originally took the position that it would not alter the result (or any other Google bombed results) because it wished to preserve the integrity of its search engine.
By January 2007, Google changed their indexing structure so that Google bombs such as "Miserable failure" would "typically return commentary, discussions, and articles" about the tactic itself, not United States Presidents.
Though the spirit of change may be in the air in Washington, some things apparently stay the same. Yes, the old online prank called "Googlebombing" returned for a brief while recently, when Google searches for the words words [failure] and [cheerful achievement] returned President Obama's biography as the top result.
Read Google's Official Statement :
Google Public Policy Blog: Detecting new "Googlebombs"Labels: breaking news os9user google bomb detected search engine purge link obama
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