Google Cheats its own search results...

OK,

I've read somewhere that google say they have no control over search results, and its all automatic, down to the pagerank, and any automatic process, so how do you explain "i'm feeling lucky" jokes?

If you havent heard of these, its where you search for a term, click the "i'm feeling lucky button", and you get a funny results.

The i'm feeling lucky button takes you stright to the top page of a search result (this is still true when doing the above)

So, here are some examples:

(Try these by entering the word, and hitting I.F.L button, then do it just by hitting the search button)


Failure -- top result: www.whitehouse.gov/president/
Times the word "Failure" is used on page: 0
2nd result: ww w.failuremag.com - Times used on page: 12

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Liar -- top result: www.number-10.gov.uk/output/Page4.asp
Times the word "Liar" is used on page: 0
2nd result: ww w.liar.be/ - Times used on page: 7

There are loads more of these i'm feeling lucky jokes, but i think these show what i mean -- the 2nd results are obviously deserve the top result! how can two pages that have nothing to do with the term rank higher? unless google can actually place results where they want?

Maybe someone can give a explanation? Maybe i'm looking into it too much? But it just makes me wonder what results they put at the top without us knowing??? or if adsense sites really are put higher up results, or blogger results turn up more, etc, etc -- and did we really land on the moon? and do aliens really exist?

Cheers

 

The whitehouse site lising no #1 for failure is because of a huge google bomb that went on for the keyword anchor text "failure".

Which I presume is the same or the next result too.

 

It's not google, it's thousands of people linking to the sites with those keywords.

 

It's obvious that this kind of jokes are injustice for the 2nd sites, but i must confess, these 2 examples are really funny

 

ah, the power of anchor text...

So thats it? loads of people link to it with that anchor text?

Thats great I've never heard of google bomb before lol

 

Yeah theres some good tricks for em. I agree though its lots of sites linking to them that brings em to the top.

 

It's harder to do now, though, I think.

Also, I hear that they're making changes on the whitehouse.gov site to try to get the 'failure' one out of the SERPs.

i think MArissa blogged about it recently (or a while back and I just stumbled on it) at some Google blog or another.

-kpaul

 

Google wants you to read the legal notice:

http://www.google.co.uk/intl/nl_ALL/legal_notice.html

http://www.google.com/intl/nl_ALL/legal_notice.html

http://www.google.be/intl/nl_ALL/legal_notice.html

..... and more

legal notice in English

PS: the legal notice might be changed some day ....but I do not know when

 

mmm.. what is a google bomb?

 

I believe it originated from lots and lots og blogs deciding that they would link to the white house with the word "failure"... I do not remember the details though.

 

You cannot trust search engines. They are not run by people who have morals (at least most of them)

 

Google Bombing originally came about when people got banned for having a massive amount of links appear over night and get banned so people used to 'bomb' there competitors and get them banned that quickly died, so it's just a phase people use when obtaining lots of links to another site now, hense the two in this thread

Danny S was talking about this on webmasterradio, and said that AOL was the only one not to have Bush at the top for 'Failure' because they hand edit stuff lol

 

someone should come up with an experiment to show a googlebomb 1st hand ... hummm ... thats a great idea ... I think i might just do that !

LOL

 

bomb google then google gives atomic in return....=)

 

While not really a Google-bombing experiment, it does show a successful Google-bombing... Google Bombs.......