http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3298443.stm
George W Bush has been Google bombed. Web users entering the words "miserable failure" into the popular search engine are directed to the biography of the president on the White House website. The trick is possible because Google searches more than just the contents of web pages - it also counts how often a site is linked to, and with what words. Thus, members of an online community can affect the results of Google searches - called "Google bombing" - by linking their sites to a chosen one. Weblogger Adam Mathes is credited with inventing the practice in 2001, when he used it to link the phrase "talentless hack" to a friend's website. The search engine can be manipulated by a fairly small group of users, one report suggested. Newsday newspaper says as few as 32 web pages with the words "miserable failure" link to the Bush biography. --- You are currently subscribed to telecom-cities as: archive@mail-archive.com To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To set DIGEST mode and only receive one list message per day with all the daily traffic, please visit the list website at http://www.informationcity.org/telecom-cities
