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Fri Sep-08-06 05:50 AM
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What the hell is a "Google Bomb" |
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I consider myself web savvy and usually can figure out most phrases and such very quickly. But what the hell is Britt Hume referring to when he uses the term "Google Bomb"
Are they going to try and frame us as web terrorist and we have these bombs that we drop all over the internetS?
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Fri Sep-08-06 05:52 AM
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1. I never heard the term before |
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but I have seen what they are talking about. here is an explanation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_Google_bombs
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Fri Sep-08-06 06:49 AM
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never understood it before now either.
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Fri Sep-08-06 05:52 AM
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2. Dunno, But It Sounds Like a Good Idea--Thanks, GOP! |
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Nice of them to let us know what surprises they have planned, isn't it?
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Fri Sep-08-06 05:54 AM
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3. It's delivered through the tubes! |
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Fri Sep-08-06 06:12 AM
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7. The internets is not a big truck!!!! |
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Fri Sep-08-06 06:29 AM
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9. OMG! There it is! What a hopeless fucker. |
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Fri Sep-08-06 05:54 AM
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Fri Sep-08-06 06:57 AM
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13. Nah, that's no google bomb |
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Google (as all other search engines) doesn't "see" the sig lines on DU.
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Fri Sep-08-06 07:03 AM
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14. Yes, but doesn't it see the number of visits? |
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So as we all click on each others sig lines, it will push the ranking of Will's article up? That's what I understood to happen.
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Fri Sep-08-06 07:12 AM
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Well, if truthout participates in the google analytics tracking, then it does increase the pagerank. But considering that just registered members of DU can see the links, I wouldn't expect many unique visitors created by them.
A proper google bomb works by adding many links associating a page with a term - which isn't possible on DU. And thanks to other google bombs, the importance of forum links has been reduced.
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Fri Sep-08-06 06:02 AM
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5. here is the definition |
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Fri Sep-08-06 06:04 AM
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... is a way to make google search results for a particular item get a higher ranking and, therefore, appear first in the list.
Example. Do a google search for "failure". First hit is... George W. Bush. :)
(Actually now GWB is second because google felt like they should provide an explanation so it wouldn't look like their site is politically motivated and this explanation is first.)
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Fri Sep-08-06 06:56 AM
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12. Sooooo, Let Me Get This Straight ... |
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In essence, its freepers saying WE are going to freep????
That's fucked up ...
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Fri Sep-08-06 06:13 AM
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8. First thing you do is eat a lot of undigestable sweet corn |
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Fri Sep-08-06 06:35 AM
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10. Is it anything like a soy bomb? |
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Sat Sep-09-06 10:41 AM
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Edited on Sat Sep-09-06 10:41 AM by lonestarnot
I am the bomb.
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