Brian
05-10-2007, 10:17 PM
Google Says Stephen Colbert Is No Longer The Greatest Living American (http://www.thetechlounge.com/news/11565/Google+Says+Stephen+Colbert+Is+No+Longer+The+Great est+Living+American/)
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When Colbert initially ranked, I'd written how odd it was that Colbert was ranking well for terms that didn't show up on his web page, since Google supposedly put measures in place (see Google Kills Bush's Miserable Failure Search & Other Google) back in January to prevent Google bombs like this from happening:
. . .
Google never explained how Colbert got around the link bomb fix. Now it seems like they've either manually made an adjustment -- a "hand job" as SEOs like to call it -- or made an algorithm change. Since Google routinely denies doing hand jobs, I assume the official response (I'll try to get one) will be an algo change [now added; see postscript below].
For the record, Colbert remains ranked fifth on Yahoo, first on Live.com and still ignored by Ask.com, for searches on "greatest living american," when looking at the first page of results.
Oh yes. You know why this article is news.
You'd have posted it, too."
Read full story here (http://searchengineland.com/070509-130626.php)
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When Colbert initially ranked, I'd written how odd it was that Colbert was ranking well for terms that didn't show up on his web page, since Google supposedly put measures in place (see Google Kills Bush's Miserable Failure Search & Other Google) back in January to prevent Google bombs like this from happening:
. . .
Google never explained how Colbert got around the link bomb fix. Now it seems like they've either manually made an adjustment -- a "hand job" as SEOs like to call it -- or made an algorithm change. Since Google routinely denies doing hand jobs, I assume the official response (I'll try to get one) will be an algo change [now added; see postscript below].
For the record, Colbert remains ranked fifth on Yahoo, first on Live.com and still ignored by Ask.com, for searches on "greatest living american," when looking at the first page of results.
Oh yes. You know why this article is news.
You'd have posted it, too."
Read full story here (http://searchengineland.com/070509-130626.php)