Replying to Another Hilarious Google Blunder...

Here's another funny thing on Google, but this time it was created on purpose by the Google team.

First a short intro. Douglas Adams wrote a great book called "The hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy." Amongst other things, a computer had been created to tell people "the answer to life, the universe and everything". More about it can be read here. After working for millions of years, the computer just told the people "42".

Anyhow, Google decided to make a joke out of this. Clicking this link will search for "the answer to life, the universe and everything". Check out what you get

I would say it is ironic that that page does not include the word 'failure' in either the code or output but that didn't deter Google bombers.

From that wikipedia link supplied by Alegis I found "Horrid Operating System", one of my favourites. No prizes for anyone that guesses that correctly.

Apparently google had nothing to do with it. They say that human people dont edit their findings or search results, this is just one of theose things! APARENTLY... sure

Funny indeed but it also shows evil effect of relying heavily on Off-page factors for ranking a page in Google SERP. Also it indicates a simple SEO trick to increase your ranking in Google SERPs. Oflate though Google is suspecting IBLs more before awarding credit, still, chances for unfair gaming still remain.
Regards,
Sid

Am going to spend some time hunting around for more stuff like this.

I forgot to link it before, there is an impressive list out there including greek and russian keywords

http://en.wikipedia....iki/Google_bomb

(or more specific : http://en.wikipedia....hed_Googlebombs )

My favourites :

******* edit : (word that consists of one's behind and an orifice)
****wit edit : (pretty obvious)
Food Nazis
Opportunist
Vreemdelingenhaat (hate for strangers)
Ληστές (thieves)

Note: these keywords do not necessarily (in fact, most probable they may not) reflect my personal political stance.

I feel like starting one about Sony and their PS3/bluray scheme.

Now, that was really a good laugh. I really would like to figure out how google find's this page the top ranking result for 'failure'. I suppose there's a lot of material out there on the web which relates Bush as being a failure; and that's how it happens.

Am going to spend some time hunting around for more stuff like this.

Some group flooded the google bots with tracers to that page, and exploited google's page ranking system. nicely done, though.

The phenomenon called "Google Bombs".

Link with a lot to an address with a keyword, and google using it's algorithm will classify it higher.
Another google bomb is 'Food Nazis'
http://www.google.co...ch?q=food nazis

Google's response about the Bush failure thing :

http://googleblog.bl...ng-failure.html

Haha lol! It's old stuff but it's funny ...