The practice of people creating a multitude of links to President George Bush's WhiteHouse.gov profile with the words 'miserable failure' as anchor text has been known as Google bombing. Now Google has made a change rendering that Google Bomb a dud.
miserable failure is no longer as entertaining as it used to be. No more seeing George Bush or Jimmy Carter, or a handful of other people, appear at the top of the Google search results for those terms.
Google has implemented some algorithm updates to take the fun out of Google bombing, according to Search Engine Land's This is because the change is designed to stop the pranks from happening rather than legitimate commentary about such activities. Google isn't saying exactly how this is being done. But Google says it's done automatically, without any human intervention.
"It's completely algorithmic," said Google spam fighting czar Matt Cutts, adding "we're not going to claim it's 100 percent perfect."
Google also provided commentary on its Matt Cutts discussed it, V7N dropped the 'undetectable' claim from their marketing of the service.
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