{"id":29,"date":"2007-04-28T20:32:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-28T20:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/codeinmybug.wordpress.com\/2007\/04\/28\/is-google-bomb-really-diffused\/"},"modified":"2007-04-28T20:32:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-28T20:32:00","slug":"is-google-bomb-really-diffused","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projectbee.org\/blog\/archive\/is-google-bomb-really-diffused\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Google Bomb REALLY Diffused?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I posted a very small article on <a href=\"http:\/\/codeinmybug.wordpress.com\/2007\/01\/22\/google-bomb-update-diffused\/\">Google Bombs<\/a>; and quite co-incidentally few days later read that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.co.in\/search?q=google+bomb+diffused\">Google has started<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com\/2007\/01\/quick-word-about-googlebombs.html\">diffusing the bombs<\/a>. Now &#8220;started diffusing&#8230;&#8221; makes sense when it has to be done manually, but aren&#8217;t we talking about terabytes and petabytes of data? We can never expect it to be done manually. Moreover, <a href=\"http:\/\/googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com\/2007\/01\/quick-word-about-googlebombs.html\">Google&#8217;s official announcement<\/a> said the same. It also admitted that <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">&#8220;&#8230;the impact of this new algorithm is very limited in scope and impact&#8230;&#8221;. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>The phrase, however, seems to make some sense to me now, that I&#8217;ve discovered that some <span style=\"font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;\">bombs <\/span>are still lying around.<br \/>\nTry making a search for the word &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.co.in\/search?q=bad\"><span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">BAD<\/span><\/a>&#8220;.<br \/>\nWho do you see as the topper?<br \/>\nQuite interestingly, it was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.afdb.org\/\" class=\"l\">African Development Bank<\/a> for me. Surprised?<br \/>\nI first thought that BAD might be the acronym for the bank&#8217;s name, as in case of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.co.in\/search?q=neha\">NEHA<\/a>, which is an acronym for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neha.org\/\" class=\"l\">National Environmental Health Association<\/a>.<br \/>\nAfter a little playing around, I  found that a few days ago, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seomoz.org\/blog\/stephen-colbert-the-greatest-living-american-a-googlebombing-campaign\">SEOmoz.org <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">appealed<\/span> to make Stephen Colbert as the Greatest Living American<\/a>. And apparently, he has become the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.co.in\/search?q=greatest+living+american\">Greatest Living American<\/a> \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Quite honestly, I am pretty happy that the algo is flawed.<br \/>\nAn attempt to diffuse the bombs, in my opinion, was more <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">public image oriented<\/span> rather than <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">result improvement oriented<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Footnote: May be <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">BAD<\/span> is not linked willingly (I firmly believe that it&#8217;s not), but then who said Google Bombs are all about linking willingly. May be they have some <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">process<\/span> which forms an acronym of the same name. But then how relevant is such and acronym if it doesn&#8217;t even appear on the home page?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I posted a very small article on Google Bombs; and quite co-incidentally few days later read that Google has started diffusing the bombs. Now &#8220;started diffusing&#8230;&#8221; makes sense when it has to be done manually, but aren&#8217;t we talking about terabytes and petabytes of data? We can never expect it to be done manually. Moreover, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/projectbee.org\/blog\/archive\/is-google-bomb-really-diffused\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Is Google Bomb REALLY Diffused?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9,10,22,26,29,33],"tags":[7,44],"class_list":["post-29","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bug","category-code","category-google","category-humour","category-irony","category-loophole","tag-bomb","tag-rating"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pf2XR-t","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projectbee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projectbee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projectbee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projectbee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projectbee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/projectbee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projectbee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projectbee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projectbee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}