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November 6, 2006
No. 6 vs No. 2
No. 6 vs No. 2: Cynthia Brumfield of IPDemocracy reports on a political campaign to Googlebomb opposing candidates: "The goal was to boost the Google ranking of the bad press when a user typed in the candidate's name. Well, the campaign has worked. According to this update, the negative articles come back within the top five search results on the candidates' names more often than not, and almost always appear on the first page of search results. Several of the linked articles appear even before the candidates' own official web sites." I think a reasonable search engine would return a person's own words before they returned others' perceptions of those words. The "Number Six" reference is to The Prisoner, a TV drama which explored the ambiguity of power.
Posted by JohnDowdell at November 6, 2006 2:33 PM