miserable failure

Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Sun Dec 07, 2003 1:36 pm

Type miserable failure in google and hit I feel lucky...

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Chris Vogel · Post by **Chris Vogel** » Sun Dec 07, 2003 3:18 pm

That is funny!

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manadren_it · Post by **manadren_it** » Mon Dec 08, 2003 4:39 pm

That has got to be some kinda of hidden hack or something, because neither the word miserable nor failure appear at all in the text of that page.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Mon Dec 08, 2003 5:35 pm

Yeah I really wonder how they did that. I'm wondering if many pages that have the words miserable failure in them linking to that page can actually cause that page to end up on google. I don't think so though. it's kind of like the "go to hell" one, Microsoft's site is first, then you have AOL and hollywood or something like that, but it's not like that anymore, it was before. It could even be google staff coding it that way temporarly just to give people laughs, if yes it's nice to see they have a sense of humor.

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manadren_it · Post by **manadren_it** » Mon Dec 08, 2003 9:54 pm

hmmm. That may be it. I remember hearing something about a techinque called google bombing or somethign like that, where people would increase the page ranking of a particular site by linking to it [particularly in weblogs] and also getting all their friends, and friends' friends I would assume, to link to it as well. I'm pretty sure google is well aware of this particular google hack and tried to do something about it though...

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