Comment from deecree
Time: May 16, 2006, 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’.

Comment from Ben
Time: May 16, 2006, 7:52 pm

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

Comment from Alan
Time: May 16, 2006, 7:56 pm

Try “liar” and “fuckwit” too.

Comment from Alan
Time: May 16, 2006, 7:57 pm

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

Comment from Alan
Time: May 16, 2006, 7:57 pm

Test without that word.

Comment from Alan
Time: May 16, 2006, 7:58 pm

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

Comment from Ben
Time: May 16, 2006, 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!!

Comment from Gary
Time: May 16, 2006, 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!!

Comment from Ben
Time: May 16, 2006, 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 )

Comment from Gary
Time: May 16, 2006, 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?

Comment from Gary
Time: May 16, 2006, 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….

Comment from Ben
Time: May 16, 2006, 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

Comment from deecree
Time: May 16, 2006, 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.