Off-topic – Who sets these things up???

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1- Go to Google

2- Type in the word “Failure”

3- Instead of clicking “Google Search,” click “I’m Feeling Lucky.”

4- Spread the word before the people at Google “fix” it.

Written by Ben Curtis

May 16th, 2006 at 4:49 pm

Posted in geek stuff

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13 Responses to “Off-topic – Who sets these things up???”

  1. deecree

    16 May 06 at 7:15 pm

    This has been the case for about 4 years now.

    (I believe as a result of the “Big Daddy” update that changed the way google indexes sites) – “Google Bombing” has been possible and has been used by numerous spammers and pranksters.

    What you do is create a link to a page on a popular website that says “Failure”, for instance, and then link to a website – Bush’s Bio, for instance.
    Get a few more people to do this, and as Google indexes their page, it looks at that link, and indexes it with the words of the link associated as search terms.

    Considering there are probably about 10 million bloggers who have commented on this search result in their blogs somewhere, I think Bush will forever be listed as a ‘failure’.

  2. Ben

    16 May 06 at 7:52 pm

    But surely there should still be a random element involved which should throw up other websites as well?

  3. Alan

    16 May 06 at 7:56 pm

    Try “liar” and “fuckwit” too.

  4. Alan

    16 May 06 at 7:57 pm

    Moderation queue? You having trouble from spammers or is it because I said “fuckwit”? :)

  5. Alan

    16 May 06 at 7:57 pm

    Test without that word.

  6. Alan

    16 May 06 at 7:58 pm

    Seems I’ve found my answer :) Please feel free to delete these comments :)

  7. Ben

    16 May 06 at 8:20 pm

    You got moderated for the f-word, but yes, the comments get spammed a lot – sometimes up to 20 comments a day from spammers get caught in the moderation queue – maddening!!

  8. Gary

    16 May 06 at 8:34 pm

    If you go into Google and type in

    French military victories

    Click Im feeling lucky

    And follow the link

    - old rivalries die hard!!

  9. Ben

    16 May 06 at 8:38 pm

    Reminds me of a joke I heard in the UK this weekend: How many French soldiers does it take to defend Paris?

    ( I’m sure you can guess the answer ;) )

  10. Gary

    16 May 06 at 8:44 pm

    Is it anything to do woth the french moving the national state of alert up from surrender to collaborate with the news that their military machine has been brought to a halt due to the burning down of the white flag factory just outside Paris?

  11. Gary

    16 May 06 at 8:49 pm

    the answer to the gag must be one to wave the white flag and 4 or 5 thousand to serve wine and coffee to the invading forces….

  12. Ben

    16 May 06 at 9:48 pm

    Those are much more sophisticated than the punchlines I heard! – something like ‘No-one knows, beacause it’s never been done’… apologies to my French brother-in-law to be ;)

  13. deecree

    16 May 06 at 10:55 pm

    The French are to warfare what the British are to cooking.

    - As for the randomness – i’m pretty sure “I’m feeling Lucky” always selects the top result.

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