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Miserable SEO Failure

Ionut Alex. Chitu [PersonRank 10]

Thursday, September 21, 2006
17 years ago4,132 views

Or how W's team tried to destroy the famous googlebomb.

http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/060921-060552

Philipp Lenssen [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

At least Google is outputting a warning on that search.

[miserable failure] or [failure]
<<Why these results?
These results may seem politically slanted. Here's what happened.>>
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/09/googlebombing-failure.html

This doesn't happen when you enter [waffles] and John Kerry's site pops up... I always think those warnings are too much "human edited" and not fair (there's thousands of "offensive" search results Google doesn't disclaim in such ways). Another warning pops up when you enter [jew]...

<<Offensive Search Results
We're disturbed about these results as well. Please read our note here.>>
http://www.google.com/explanation.html

Roger Browne [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

It's weird that these "explanations" are labelled "sponsored links".

Tony Ruscoe [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

<< It's weird that these "explanations" are labelled "sponsored links". >>

I agree. Surely they could create a kind of OneBox result for it...

Ionut Alex. Chitu [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

They use AdWords for all kinds of announcements: hiring people, promoting software, disclaimers, announcing new services.

On 9/11, they even put an ad for a special created page with links about the tragic event. Probably, this is the only way they can add manual stuff to some result pages.

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