You have to see this! This is the greatest failure!

FrankU · January 10, 2006, 5:05pm

Hi, you must check this out: Go to Google and look for the word failure. See which page comes out on top?

Let me know what you think?
FrankU

Danial2005 · January 11, 2006, 4:50am

Hi Franku

Opps :shock: a white house pops into my sight.
In that house,a man called George W. Bush is trying
to make his policy fit with his country but fails to remove
the “white house” from the top of google. :lol:

Sidle_Jinks · January 11, 2006, 4:54pm

Hello everybody!

This case was explained by Marissa Mayer, Director of Consumer Web Products:

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/09/googlebombing-failure.html:

Google’s search results are generated by computer programs that rank web pages in large part by examining the number and relative popularity of the sites that link to them. By using a practice called googlebombing, however, determined pranksters can occasionally produce odd results. In this case, a number of webmasters use the phrases [failure] and [miserable failure] to describe and link to President Bush’s website, thus pushing it to the top of searches for those phrases. We don’t condone the practice of googlebombing, or any other action that seeks to affect the integrity of our search results, but we’re also reluctant to alter our results by hand in order to prevent such items from showing up. Pranks like this may be distracting to some, but they don’t affect the overall quality of our search service, whose objectivity, as always, remains the core of our mission.

And the same thing with David Irving: Google’s results for this query (like this - David Irving), you’ll get something like this:

Emphasized words never appear on David Irving’s site - neither in displayable content, nor in metacontent, scripts and hidden blocks. Possibly Google just generates a brief site description from the links pointing to the site (Link description). Or maybe not, who knows…