Wednesday, December 14, 2005

It’s interesting what Google searches can turn up. For instance, if you type in “liar”, the first page that comes up is a biography of British Prime Minister Tony Blair. If you type in “failure”, or “miserable failure”, the first page to display is a biography of President Bush. The number two site is MichaelMoore.com. The process by which these anomalies occur is called “Google Bombing”, whereby website designers collaborate to link fairly benign search terms with certain web pages. This exploits Google’s algorithm for determining which results to return for searches. For more information, find a nerd.

2 comments:

2 bees said...

I thought I had, for a moment there!

Max said...

Har har.