Left Of Ohio: The Death Of The Googlebomb

Friday, January 26, 2007

The Death Of The Googlebomb

Google has finally killed off the "Googlebomb". Googlebombing gained national news coverage last year after it was used as a campaign tactic against a list of Republican candidates.

We wanted to give a quick update about "Googlebombs." By improving our analysis of the link structure of the web, Google has begun minimizing the impact of many Googlebombs. Now we will typically return commentary, discussions, and articles about the Googlebombs instead. The actual scale of this change is pretty small (there are under a hundred well-known Googlebombs), but if you'd like to get more details about this topic, read on.

Well I guess that's the end of that, at least until people find a workaround. Never really cared much for the idea myself, though I did participate.

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