OT: google fun

how do they do that?

"Tom" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Go to www.google.co.uk and type in Liar and hit the "I'm feeling lucky"
button

Tom :-)

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Seen on another newsgroup ...

Go to www.google.co.uk and type in Liar and hit the "I'm feeling

lucky"

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button

how do they do that?

I don't know but try typing Failure in and hitting "I feel lucky"

Tom

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"Tom" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Go to www.google.co.uk and type in Liar and hit the "I'm feeling lucky"
button

how do they do that?

Blog-inspired 'googlebombing'. Because Google indexes stuff on the text
of the link *to* a page, as well as the text of a page, if you can get
enough people to link to a certain page with a certain word, you can get
it to the top of Google's results.

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religious conviction."
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how do they do that?

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I don't know but try typing Failure in and hitting "I feel lucky"

Doesn't work any more but this tells you a little about how they do it (and
what the search used to direct you to).

<URL:http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3298443.stm>

there was a simlar one with weapons of mass destruction 2 years ago.
You got a "this page cannot be found" screen but it was all about WAMD
or lack thereof.

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Go to www.google.co.uk and type in Liar and hit the "I'm feeling lucky"
button

Or "french military victories" for similar nonsense.

Tim

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Go to www.google.co.uk and type in Liar and hit the "I'm feeling

lucky"

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OK, that one's really worth it:-)

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I don't know but try typing Failure in and hitting "I feel lucky"

Only mildly amusing, 'cos it's not so obviously appropriate.
I wonder if we could/should googlebomb "terrorist" to go there -
that would be an altogether better fit?

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how do they do that?

Since you mention it, I've decided to make my little
contribution. The technique should be obvious from
http://www.webthing.com/~nick/ (bottom of page)
and from
http://people.apache.org/~niq/ (below the serious links).

It takes a lot of those to work the magic. Everyone needs to
do their bit. This is the voice of the people - when it works.

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I don't know but try typing Failure in and hitting "I feel lucky"

Doesn't work any more

Did for me just now (at least I think it did).

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I don't know but try typing Failure in and hitting "I feel lucky"

Doesn't work any more

Did for me just now (at least I think it did).

This time I got <url:http://www.failuremag.com/>, but earlier today got
<url:http://www.failurecomics.com/> . Re-reading the bbc article it says I
should have been typing 'Miserable failure', which does indeedy take me to
<url:http://www.whitehouse.gov/president/gwbbio.html>.

Tim Downie said:

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Go to www.google.co.uk and type in Liar and hit the "I'm feeling lucky"
button

Or "french military victories" for similar nonsense.

Tee hee!

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"Tom" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Seen on another newsgroup ...

Go to www.google.co.uk and type in Liar and hit the "I'm feeling lucky"
button

Or "french military victories" for similar nonsense.

Tim

Pardon me if I seem a bit slow on this.... does that mean that, with all of
urc trying these out, we are perpetuating them?