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The term “Google bombing” was first coined by Adam Mathes, now a product manager at Google, who first described the concept in April 2001 while writing for the site Uber.nu. Mathes successfully used the backlinks that fueled PageRank to make the search term “talentless hack” bring up his friend’s website.
How Google made the world go viral - The Verge Ryan Broderick 2023
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Those of us of a, ahem, certain age will remember the phenomenon of “Google bombing;” the classic example was using the words “miserable failure” with a link to George W. Bush.
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This sounds a lot like Google Bombing, or Googlewashing, “the practice of causing a website to rank highly in web search engine results for irrelevant, unrelated or off-topic search terms by linking heavily.”
Considering AI Privacy Scenarios Drew Breunig 2024
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