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[Political Google Bombing] Good or Bad Tactics?

/pd [PersonRank 10]

Thursday, October 26, 2006
17 years ago2,263 views

“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]

Tony Ruscoe [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

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...)

George R [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

[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

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