Googlebombing spam (was Re: [Sigia-l] The category of \"Miscellaneous\")

[andrew at pcug.org.au]

Hi Eric,

this brings me to an interesting chapter in the history of googlebombing - it may be the first mainstream political action of its type.

http://boingboing.net/2004/05/24/silly_season_googleb.html

Not sure what this has to do with IA :)

Cheers, Andrew

> On 16/6/04 8:07 PM, "Listera" <listera at rcn.com> wrote:
> 
> >> You're either missing the point or avoiding it: Google's algorithm relies on
> >> the billions of man-hours which have been invested into making relevant
> >> links.
> >
> > Google hasn't spent billions of man-hours to manually organize the web or
> > make relevant links, neither those who created the raw content.
> 
> google's excellent search results depends on the linkings that have been
> made in the web, and for the most part those linkings are human-determined.
> Google currently claims to have indexed 4,285,199,774 pages.
> 
> e.
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