Google’s stance on Googlebombing

by on June 4, 2007

Google’s official blog today had an interesting post about its stance on Googlebombing (where a group of people get together and raise one result higher by linking to it). They specifically were reacting to how if you do a search on Google for “failure” you’ll find a page about George Bush.

UPDATE: this post originally appeared in 2005 (I didn’t remember it from back then). Turns out that RSS kicked out a new version of this post. Both Bloglines and Google Reader users saw it again (that’s where I saw it).

So, this is actually a bug in the RSS system.

  • James Kew
    "Today"? That post's from 2005!

    (Bloglines showed a whole bunch of old Google Blog posts as new today; I guess Google Reader did too, huh?)
  • James: heheh! Yeah. Wonder what happened there?
  • same here. i get a "new" google-entry every minute and it won't stop. apparently googlereader likes the official google-blog very much :)
  • El
    Failure = George Bush ?
    No offense, but it made me snicker. ^^ I just heard about this.
  • Anon2
    Failure in RSS? More likely a failure in Wordpress, don't you think? Or is that too complicated for you to grasp?
  • @5, no, I got the post as well and I don't use wordpress
  • I just saw a post on the feed from Google blog announcing "We developed Davinci code puzzles". It was from 2006
  • Ditto

    I was surprised to see that the Google section of my Reader list had 60 something new posts.

    I wonder what causes this... Error in Google Reader, or error in the blog itself?
  • DaveD
    This is from 2005? One would never have noticed... same old same old.
  • I had the same problem. In fact, last year, the same thing also happened. Very frustrating.
  • It's an issue in Blogger; when they (or any other Blogger user) goes back to edit labels into old posts, their feed shows them up as 'new', very very annoying as a lot of older Blogger uesers tend to do that sort of thing fairly regularly.

    another reason to convert to (and stay with) a better blogging platform.
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