Republican Bombing Google

A New Campaign Tactic: Manipulating Google Data - New York Times

"Fifty or so other Republican candidates have also been made targets in a sophisticated “Google bombing” campaign intended to game the search engine’s ranking algorithms. By flooding the Web with references to the candidates and repeatedly cross-linking to specific articles and sites on the Web, it is possible to take advantage of Google’s formula and force those articles to the top of the list of search results."

Sigh. Politicians... always looking for the easy way. Of course, they don't seem to have a great grasp on the whole concept of keyword research, being as they're Google Bombing their sites for their own names.

I hope they all get dropped from the engine. Play fair kids, it pays off more in the long run.


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