Re: miserable failure

by "Tim Rivera" <lists(at)timrivera.com>

Date:	Thu, 4 Dec 2003 17:05:45 -0500
To:	<hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>, "Collette McNeill" <collette(at)mlwebworks.com>
References:	tsoft
	todo: View Thread, Original

> From another list. How does this happen? - collette
> .........................
> A friend just suggested this, and for once it worked for me.  Go to
> Google, enter 'miserable failure', and click 'I'm feeling lucky'.


First off, "I'm feeling lucky" simply loads the highest-ranking result
from the search query. As to why this website is the highest-ranking,
this is called a "Google Bomb". If you view Google's cached page, you
will see this note at top: "These terms only appear in links pointing
to this page: miserable failure".

In addition to using a webpage's content, Google also uses the text
from text links linking to that webpage as well as how many other
webpages link to that webpage to determine the page's relevancy and
rank. A Google Bomb is made by many people using a specific phrase to
link to a website. More info:
http://www.microcontentnews.com/articles/googlebombs.htm


Tim

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