“We don’t condone the practice of Google bombing, or any other action that seeks to affect the integrity of our search results,” said Ricardo Reyes, a Google spokesman. “A site’s ranking in Google’s search results is automatically determined by computer algorithms using thousands of factors to calculate a page’s relevance to a given query.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/26/us/politics/26googlebomb.html?ex=1319515200&en=cf9c1ba8c49c62b2&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss
What would happen to all these "Campaign Tactic" if google drops them from the index and SERP ? Should not Google just do that and let the US candiate go and shove it where the sun does not shine!!
[Title updated – Tony] |
Ricardo Reyes is simply quoting Marissa Mayer and using some old material... what a great spokesman he is!
<< We don't condone the practice of googlebombing, or any other action that seeks to affect the integrity of our search results... >>
As posted by Marissa Mayer on 16 September 2005: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/09/googlebombing-failure.html
<< A site's ranking in Google's search results is automatically determined by computer algorithms using thousands of factors to calculate a page's relevance to a given query. >>
From: http://www.google.com/explanation.html (which was first published around June 2004...) |
[Moved from "Political Google Bombing" – Tony]
The New York Times has an article by Tom Zeller Jr. about the use of google bombing to link around fifty candidates names to negative news articles.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/26/us/politics/26googlebomb.html?ex=1319515200&en=cf9c1ab0c65c62b2&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss |