Comments on: Strange things http://www.antoniabance.org.uk/2006/03/25/strange-things/ Thoughts of Antonia, Labour activist and feminist in Oxford Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:45:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Wayne http://www.antoniabance.org.uk/2006/03/25/strange-things/#comment-2323 Wayne Sun, 26 Mar 2006 10:48:13 +0000 http://www.antoniabance.org.uk/2006/03/25/strange-things/#comment-2323 The BNP dont own Redwatch The BNP dont own Redwatch

]]> By: Tim Roll-Pickering http://www.antoniabance.org.uk/2006/03/25/strange-things/#comment-2319 Tim Roll-Pickering Sun, 26 Mar 2006 04:02:34 +0000 http://www.antoniabance.org.uk/2006/03/25/strange-things/#comment-2319 The answer's in the small print of the search. <i>These terms only appear in links pointing to this page: <b>socialist wankers</b></i> Basically people have been creating links to the site and using those terms as the label, often to influence a search for those terms. One of the best known ones is <a href="http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=GEUA,GEUA:2005-34,GEUA:en&q=miserable+failure" rel="nofollow">Miserable failure</a> which first brings up <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/president/gwbbio.html" rel="nofollow">the official White House biography of George W. Bush</a>. Sometimes this is done as a joke, though others do try to boost the chances of a particular site to come up, especially when it's newly established or an ancient site is causing problems. See <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_bomb" rel="nofollow">Google bomb</a> on Wikipedia for more on this. The answer’s in the small print of the search.

These terms only appear in links pointing to this page: socialist wankers

Basically people have been creating links to the site and using those terms as the label, often to influence a search for those terms. One of the best known ones is Miserable failure which first brings up the official White House biography of George W. Bush.

Sometimes this is done as a joke, though others do try to boost the chances of a particular site to come up, especially when it’s newly established or an ancient site is causing problems.

See Google bomb on Wikipedia for more on this.

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