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| Who knew that Google lied? Posted on 05/20/2002. |
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So, Google claims that there are no links to Textism's page about Verisign, and how screwed up a company it is. This is, of course, untrue, as Textism has orchestrated a googlebomb, and Blogdex shows 274 links to that page. I suppose I can't blame Google for not wanting their results to be skewed, though I don't agree with their method--since we know that pages are linking to Textism, they should at least acknowledge it... They just don't need highlight that page in the results.Also, this googleblock simply suggests that Blogistan ought to explore a new route. For now, I'm going to point to this Kuro5hin article on Verisign's unethical emails. So, that's Verisign.
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AUTHOR: Matt Round
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URL: http://www.malevolent.com/
DATE: 05/20/2002 12:31:00 PM
Earlier this year one of my sites had at least half a dozen inbound links, all fully indexed by Google, yet it was a couple of months before anything showed up in link: queries. Perhaps that was a one-off though, I don't know.
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AUTHOR: jkottke
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URL: http://www.kottke.org
DATE: 05/20/2002 4:05:00 PM
That page is in the Google DB, but Google has definitely supressed it...it's the fourth result out of four for "verisign" on textism.com. Advice for future Googlebombers: don't coordinate Googlebombs in a public place (i.e. away from the prying eyes of Google's humans and bots).
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AUTHOR: risser
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DATE: 05/21/2002 7:16:00 AM
Not being part of your club, I guess, I have no idea what you are talking about.
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AUTHOR: peterme
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DATE: 05/21/2002 7:56:00 AM
it's okay. we don't know, either.
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AUTHOR: Gene
EMAIL: gene@atomiq.org
URL: http://www.atomiq.org
DATE: 05/21/2002 8:08:00 AM
Why do we want to fuck with Google? Someone has to explain to me how I can a) engage in Googlebombing, and b) expect Google to deliver good search results. It's inconsistent.There has to be another way to expose the "evils" of Verisign.
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AUTHOR: Ray Davis
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URL: http://www.bellonatimes.com/
DATE: 05/22/2002 10:28:00 AM
I'm also surprised by Google's "fix" -- presumably they'll come to their senses at some point after the silly faddish word fades away. (I'm not surprised by the spread of a silly faddish word, of course.)If everyone with the Verisign link had said "Here's a must-read summary of recent events at Verisign" (instead of saying that they were "Googlebombing"), everything would be pretty much the same except that there'd be no perceived problem. Which seems to indicate that the problem isn't real.
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AUTHOR: Aaron Swartz
EMAIL: me@aaronsw.com
URL: http://www.aaronsw.com/
DATE: 05/23/2002 10:06:00 AM
After a while of watching Google I've come to the conclusion that they have two indexes: one which is updated daily based on weblogs and one which is updated monthly (or even less often) for the entire Web. It is only the second that appears in link: searches and many other Google things.Since the campaign was only started earlier this month it's quite likely that none of the links have made it into the monthly index yet. This is nothing to get all bothered about... yet. :-)
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AUTHOR: Ben
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URL: http://www.benmeadowcroft.com
DATE: 07/29/2002 9:34:00 AM
Search engines are hardly the swiftest of beasts. As mentioned by Aaron (comment #7) these things take a while to filter through. As I am posting this a couple of months later than you guys (assuming I'm understanding your american date system correctly) it might be interesting to know that that goog link is now returning 2,330 linking pages, a slight increase on zero :)
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AUTHOR: Ben
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URL: http://www.benmeadowcroft.com
DATE: 07/29/2002 9:35:00 AM
Search engines are hardly the swiftest of beasts. As mentioned by Aaron (comment #7) these things take a while to filter through. As I am posting this a couple of months later than you guys (assuming I'm understanding your american date system correctly) it might be interesting to know that that goog link is now returning 2,330 linking pages, a slight increase on zero :)
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AUTHOR: Ben
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URL: http://www.benmeadowcroft.com
DATE: 07/29/2002 9:36:00 AM
Search engines are hardly the swiftest of beasts. As mentioned by Aaron (comment #7) these things take a while to filter through. As I am posting this a couple of months later than you guys (assuming I'm understanding your american date system correctly) it might be interesting to know that that goog link is now returning 2,330 linking pages, a slight increase on zero :)
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AUTHOR: Ben
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URL: http://www.benmeadowcroft.com
DATE: 07/29/2002 9:37:00 AM
Search engines are hardly the swiftest of beasts. As mentioned by Aaron (comment #7) these things take a while to filter through. As I am posting this a couple of months later than you guys (assuming I'm understanding your american date system correctly) it might be interesting to know that that goog link is now returning 2,330 linking pages, a slight increase on zero :)
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AUTHOR: Gerald
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URL: http://www.gerald-steffens.de
DATE: 02/23/2003 9:17:00 AM
Four comments are almost a Google Bombing, one comment like this is more likely a stealth bombing ;-) By the way, the above mentioned textism page seems to be blank now.
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