Jan 27 2007

Google Corrects Thier Miserable Failure

By Jeremy Schoemaker 11 comments

Matt Cutts has posted about how Googlebombs will no longer have an effect on Google search index. The most blatant and silly example of this was when George Bush’s whitehouse page used to show up #1 from the keywords “Miserable Failure”. Well now that the kids can no longer easily alter Google’s results you also now see George Bush’s bio ranks #1 for Great President.

Regardless of your political affiliation its pretty awesome Google has prevented the ability for GoogleBombing to effect its index.

So does this now mean that SEO contests will truly predict who has the best SEO? Well I think it takes out one element…

GiladG said on January 27th, 2007 at 1:26 pm

Shoe, I think it was “Their Miserable Failure”…

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Secure Hosting said on January 27th, 2007 at 2:00 pm

That’s too funny, from failure to great president.

What did google fix, exactly?

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elephant said on January 27th, 2007 at 2:31 pm

Its http://www.mattcutts.co.uk/blog not .com!

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Dino said on January 27th, 2007 at 4:23 pm

Lol, yeah that keyword “failure” was around for a long while actually.Anyways i recently had vanished messages in my gmail account you guys heard of that.By the way ShoeMoney i lost alot of important mail recently to what i think is a server rollback i contacted support but they not doing much. Any advise or private extension number you might have that i can call. I know google doesnt have customer support service available via phone.

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ShoeMoney said on January 27th, 2007 at 4:32 pm

Sorry I dont =(. I never used Gmail I just never gamble with free services for important stuff.

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Brent said on January 27th, 2007 at 9:26 pm

What about YahooBombs and MSNBombs? Have these two search engines failed miserably as well?

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Rub3X said on January 28th, 2007 at 12:42 am

It was just “failure” no quotes eventually.

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YSBR said on January 29th, 2007 at 7:48 am

Also check out the 4th result for that Google search for “Great President”…. The Wiki for Google Bomb… interesting!

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Global Investor said on January 29th, 2007 at 1:12 pm

That’s hilarious. Too bad Google had to ruin everyone’s fun.

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Google Stopping Google Bombs · PonziScams.com Online Investment Due Diligence DD said on January 27th, 2007 at 9:05 pm

[...] I was reading over at ShoeMoney.com (Great Google Arbitrage Artist) that Google has fixed The Miserable Failure (A Google Bomb that pointed to President Bush’s Bio) Google Bomb and many others! According to Matt Cutts. Read the Full Story over at ShoeMoney.com [...]
The Impact of Google’s new Anti-Bombing Algo on Seo Contests like Globalwaming Awareness2007 said on January 28th, 2007 at 12:05 pm

[...] btw: Shoemoney discovered another googlebomb: can you find the phrase “great president” on the site ranked #1 for it on google? [...]