Google bombing defense

Hey all,

There was an article in the NY Times today on google bombing's rise in the political arena. Anyone here know how to bomb-proof themselves, or combat it once it's been done?

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/26/u...&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=print

 

There will be time when a new glue will be on top beating google.

I am one of those guys who wait for that.

Reading the article makes me think that is not very far.

Hi the new glue where are you..

Thanks

 

google will be life in future i didn't suprised.

 

Anyone out there have a technical response?

 

Defend what against it? A ranking? How could you. It's a group of unrelated people that will do what they want.

Why would bloggers go after your term though?

 

it's nothing i have a stake in, i was just thinking about the way a politician or say a corporation might defend themselves from it.

in the article they mention:

aside from the above, anyone have any ideas? let's pretend you fell into the latter category, of "lesser-known candidates, with a smaller body of references and links", and you were the subject of a google bomb attack. is there anything you can do online to reduce the effects of a google bombing after the fact?

 

I'm guessing cloaking. If it's Google, redirect to say an anti-democrat site.

 

awesome. seems like cloaking is an answer to a lot of things.

if anyone has any other ideas, do tell!

 

yes and the anti-democratic site will report you as spam

 

lol, a robots.txt and then you can hide under a rock for the rest of time lol, there is no real defense against a Google bomb, unless you get Google to help you(!?!!!!!!?!?!)

 

I would think that you can detect what the referrer is and if they searched for a particular term you could redirect them elsewhere?

I'm no php genius but this is what I hacked together some months ago as part of a script, see php resources/sites for more info.

$referparts[] = parse_url($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']);

echo $referparts[0][host];

Would this be the same as cloaking?

Eric

 

Yes, it's the same as cloacking

 

Bomb back. Remember what happened with the Google bombing for the word "Jew". It originally led to JewWatch, an anti-semitic hate site until a Google Bombing moved the Wikipedia entry to the #1 spot. Supporters of JewWatch bombed back, and Wikipedia supporters bombed back again and now it is a constant battle for the #1 spot.