Google was planted a bomb
Google has once again fallen victim to the "Google Bombing" nerd prank. For a short time, the search engine spit out the biography of the new US President Barack Obama when you searched Google for the keywords "failure" and "cheerful achievement".
Google once again fell victim to the nerd prank "Google Bombing". For a short time, the search engine spat out the biography of the new US President Barack Obama when people searched Google for the keywords "failure" and "cheerful achievement". In the meantime, the leak has been fixed by the search engine provider, according to 20min.ch. Anyone who now enters these words receives discussion posts on the subject of "Google Bombing".
As early as 2003, the biography of Obama's predecessor George W. Bush was briefly displayed at the top when people searched for "miserable failure". The reason for this was that numerous Bush opponents had linked to the document via this wording. Google could be tricked this way, since the search engine considers the number of links as an important criterion when evaluating search results. In 2004, even a Swiss politician fell victim to this Internet prank: Christoph Blocher's portrait was briefly displayed at number 1 when "pathetic wimp" was entered. After these incidents, Google adjusted its algorithm accordingly, but the search engine still does not seem to be immune to bombing attacks.
As early as 2003, the biography of Obama's predecessor George W. Bush was briefly displayed at the top when people searched for "miserable failure". The reason for this was that numerous Bush opponents had linked to the document via this wording. Google could be tricked this way, since the search engine considers the number of links as an important criterion when evaluating search results. In 2004, even a Swiss politician fell victim to this Internet prank: Christoph Blocher's portrait was briefly displayed at number 1 when "pathetic wimp" was entered. After these incidents, Google adjusted its algorithm accordingly, but the search engine still does not seem to be immune to bombing attacks.
