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Kate | Wednesday, October 19, 2005

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A quick post Derek will appreciate:

Go to Google, type in the word "failure" - with the quotes - and hit the "I'm Feeling Lucky" button - quickly, before Google changes it.

Enjoy!

Kate | 10/19/2005 11:50:00 PM |   Post your comment

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Ha! That's good.
D | October 20, 2005 12:33 AM | permalink
 

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I knew about this thing but I'm not sure how this happens. It must have been put into the system somehow because "failure" doesn't even exist on that page. Needless to say, I'm not amused...OK, maybe a little, in a non-partisan sort of way.
Ruvym | October 20, 2005 1:54 AM | permalink
 

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All the "I'm Feeling Lucky" does is send you directly to the very first search result for a given term... thus, if you search for "University of Notre Dame" and press "I'm Feeling Lucky" you will go to the ND website, as it is the first search result returned.

Getting a search for failure or miserable failure to go to Dubya's biography is known as a Google bomb. Basically, Google ranks and indexes pages based on a (complicated for me) calculus that involves the number of times others link to a page. Thus, Googlebombs are born when organized efforts are undertaken to associate particular pages with particular terms. You can read more here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Googlebomb
Craig | October 20, 2005 8:58 AM | permalink
 

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That's pretty cool. Thanks for the research. I always thought it had to do with the terms available on the page.
Ruvym | October 20, 2005 12:08 PM | permalink
 

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Wow. That was really neat. Let's Googlebomb derekwalden.com with "nerf herder".

The Googlebomb I remember was "weapons of mass destruction" and it took you here.
D | October 20, 2005 12:22 PM | permalink
 

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