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Posted by porcelain girl (Member # 1080) on :

go to google, type in "miserable failure," then choose "i'm feeling lucky."

Posted by sarcasticmuppet (Member # 5035) on :

wow. It's not some anglefire domain either, it's the whitehouse website.

Posted by mackillian (Member # 586) on :

*deja vu*

Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :

Okay. About eight people told me this after I saw it on Hatrack the first time around. The person who did this must be feeling pretty pleased with himself/herself.

Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :

There's no one person. This practice is called "googlepacking," and it's been around for a while. Basically, a bunch of bloggers discovered over a year ago that it's possible to skew Google's search results -- especially on a relatively uncommon term -- if you get enough bloggers linking to a site via a link with that term in it. In some cases, you only need about ten or twenty websites to pull off a successful googlepack.

Posted by pooka (Member # 5003) on :

Oooh, let's do it.

Posted by butterfly (Member # 5898) on :

[Smile]

Posted by fugu13 (Member # 2859) on :

*cough* google bombing *cough*

Though I do congratulate you on coining a new term, albeit one for a practice that already has one. At least as far as google knows, you're the first to use it.

Posted by porcelain girl (Member # 1080) on :

oops. sorry guys, i hadn't been paying attention.

::holds out backs of hands and winces:::

Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :

I would humbly submit that the term "googlepacking" is in all ways superior to "googlebombing." [Smile]