Oh my. You know how Google for some searches splits up the results into different “related” sub sections? Well, now England’s soccer star Ashley Cole finds himself in the middle of such a “related” section: when you enter Ashley Cole into Google, half way down the page you will see a suggestion: “See results for: ashley cole gay.”
Naturally, these type of result suggestions are fully automated. What likely triggered this particular related search was a libel action by Cole against newspapers who said Premiership players were making out with each other. This looks like a new variant of Googlebombing that for now went off inadvertently; I wonder, could it be maliciously triggered in the future?
[Thanks Brinke Guthrie.]
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