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- verb To
spam a web page with links or words to gain a highGoogle PageRank. This is often done with use oftables .
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In fact, the point of a googlebomb is to acheive the googlebomb and then publicize it: "Look, if you search for 'more evil than satan,' you get the Microsoft home-page, hardy-har-har."
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It's really self-reflexive: the nominal point of a googlebomb is to hijack a common search-term to misdirect searchers (i.e., the neo-Nazis who bombed the string "jew"), but in fact, a single-word query for "jew" is a pretty weird thing to punch into Google: "Hmm, I wonder why my neighbor takes every Friday night off and lights a candle.
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I love the googlebomb, but I thought I'd point out (if you hadn't noticed) that the smartbitchestrashybooks URL is filtered out by google's safesearch - which means that most people searching from jobs and public libraries won't see the googlebomb, which is a shame and dilutes the power of it.
doggdot.us 2009
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I love the googlebomb, but I thought I'd point out (if you hadn't noticed) that the smartbitchestrashybooks URL is filtered out by google's safesearch - which means that most people searching from jobs and public libraries won't see the googlebomb, which is a shame and dilutes the power of it.
doggdot.us 2009
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Who are they to dictate what Democrats we can or can't intimidate or googlebomb?
The New York Times Does Next Gen Dems Room Eight 2010
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A Polish paper has reported that a googlebomber ( "23 years old Marek W. from Cieszyn") has been arrested for creating a googlebomb that turned President Lech Kaczyński's homepage into the top search result for Google searches on the word "kutas" ( "penis").
Boing Boing 2007
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It looks like this site tried to googlebomb the phrase, "Mormon Temple Weirdness," as a way of countering tonight's Big Love episode.
Archive 2009-03-15 2009
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There's a move afoot to googlebomb amazon described here by generating links to a new definition of amazon rank.
Archive 2009-04-01 susan 2009
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There's a move afoot to googlebomb amazon described here by generating links to a new definition of amazon rank.
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Categories: contestednarrative googlebomb markhemingway wealthofnetworks yochaibenkler
Googlebomb This! (The Five Stages of Republican Grief Online) 2007
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