As stated on their website, Google's mission is to "organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful." Right. As that may appear to be a noble quest, the Google machine is easy to manipulate. For a perfect example, proceed to Google and enter the phrase "miserable failure". The #1 result links to the bio page of George W. Bush. Whether or not you agree with that statement is for political discussions, and I'm not getting into that here. Point is, the results for that phrase were achieved because of one simple reason. Links. That's right, you'll hear many arguements about content being king and linking is queen. While I do agree with that from a user perspective, it's not true for SEM purposes. I do agree that content will make the user come back, but in order to get ranked in the coveted #1 spot, you need more links than your competitors. Google's approach on this is that if you have more links pointing to your site than your online competition, your page must be more important that all the other 20 billion known web pages on the Internet. There are many factors that go into getting a site ranked, and making it sticky, but if you were to build the absolute best site about widgets, adding a new page of content everyday (per Google's request, and you fulfilling their egomanaical quest to determine how you should run your website), and all I did was to slap together a one page site that highlights some features of the widget, while only going after links, and you build content, who's going to get the top spot? The site with more links pointing to it, which would be mine. This is why Google (and all the other search engines) fail when returning the results. True, they are just machines and the human programmers who create the secret ranking algorithm haven't been able to program comprehensive understanding into them yet - so until they do, you know what you need to do to your site to get ranked. Links, links and more links. -To your online success!
Yes cause googlebombing is easy *rolls eyes* That website also happens to have massive amounts of links to it with that keyword linking. Google's algorithm is an advanced beast created by Harvard doctors... optimization via links, as with MSN and Yahoo does very very well; however, you're best to do other methods as well.
This shows that their much hype algorithm does have serious limitations. But I guess they had done quite a good job overall or they won't be the most popular search engine. There is a limit to the "intelligence" of computers. A baby has much better pattern recognition ability than the fastest computer with the most power algorithm. Having said that, given that there are billions upon billions of web pages to be searched and indexed and classified, Google had done well within the limitations.
Had the original poster actually done his homework, he would have found out that 'miserable failure' and the majority of the other more notorious Googlebombs stopped working about a year ago when Google deployed a fix for it. Its *almost* impossible now to Googlebomb a page into ranking for a search phrase that does not appear in the visible portions of that page. Its another reminder to be skeptical of things you read online, especially when its written by one of the chorus of the perpetually outraged that has so demeaned and debauched political discourse in America.
By the way, the miserable failure link bomb you mention was disabled by Google a while ago - I am afraid you're a little late in pointing that one out.
What a crock of shit - that type of google bombing was disabled about a year ago. If you want publicity - you got it - for talking bollocks
your talkin sh!t mate, googlebombing is currently one of the big updates. how old was the blog you copied that article from?