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As per Wikipedia:

A Google bomb is Internet slang for a certain kind of attempt to influence the ranking of a given page in results returned by the Google search engine, often with humorous or political intentions. Because of the way that Google’s algorithm works, a page will be ranked higher if the sites that link to that page use consistent anchor text. A Google bomb is created if a large number of sites link to the page in this manner.

Googlebombs very rarely happen for common queries, because the lack of any relevant results for that phrase is part of why a Googlebomb can work.

In an Official Google Webmaster Central Blog posting google said that they had come up with an algorithm to detect Goolgebombs in many different languages. They have achieved this by improving their analysis of the link structure of the web. It does not guarantee a complete fix but does minimize the impact of many Goolgebombs. Now, it will return articles about Googlebombs instead.

Some googlebombs (also called “linkbombs” as they are not limited to Google) that became very famous:

• A search for “miserable failure” or “failure” on September 29, 2006 brought up the official George W. Bush biography number one on Google, Yahoo! and MSN and number two on Ask.com.
• On June 2, 2005, Yooter reported that George Bush is now ranked first for the keyword ‘miserable’, ‘failure’ and ‘miserable failure’ in both Google and Yahoo!.
• On September 16, 2005, Marissa Mayer wrote on Google Blog about the practice of Google bombing and the word “failure.”.
• On January 6, 2006, Yooter reported that Tony Blair is now indexed in the U.S. and UK versions of Google for the keyword ‘liar’.

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