google bombs
bond | 4 Aug 2006, 2:56pm
# "Anne Milton" - points to a very negative blog about Anne Milton, the Conservative MP for Guildford, maintained by a disenchanted constituent.
# "Arabian Gulf" - points to an error look-alike page saying that "the gulf you are looking for does not exist." The page links to the Wikipedia entry on the Persian Gulf, alternative English name for the body of water east of the Arabian Peninsula and south of Iran.
# Asshole - A site highly critical of the current government of the United States.
# Awful Announcer brings you to the official website of frequently criticized baseball color commentator Tim McCarver
# "Be Afraid" brings up Ready.Gov, the official website of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
# Bill Napoli brings up an extremely negative definition of South Dakota Republican Senator Bill Napoli. Created by the Smart Bitches, it is based on comments he made after a bill in the South Dakota State Legislature was passed that, if it stands up to the scrutiny of the United States Supreme Court, will ban abortion in that state.
# "bunch of luddites" - points to the homepage of the Motion Picture Association of America.
# Chuck Norris - A recent attempt to place one of the infamous Chuck Norris 'facts' in the #1 Google ranking for searches on Chuck Norris. This page is not currently ranked on the search engine, and the link points to the third-party target page with no affiliation to Google itself. It says in red letters "Google won't search for Chuck Norris because it knows you don't find Chuck Norris, he finds you."
# First against the wall - Used to return the Wikipedia entry on Karl Rove.
# Food Nazis - Points to Center for Science in the Public Interest.
# French military victories - see French military victories (practical joke). Points to a faked Google error page noting there are no French military victories.
# "Fucking Incredible" - Opens up the home page of the "Facepunch Studios" forums. These are the main forums of Garry's Mod, a popular "Sandbox" mod for Half-Life 2 Google Bomb originally organized in a thread started by Facepunch Studios user, TheBlackViper
# fuckwit returns (in second place) John Prescott who is Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
# gastrointestinal dysentery returns Kres Chophouse & Lounge in Orlando, Florida, a restaurant that fired a server for blogging about work.
# hell used to put Microsoft's homepage in the top spot. Searching for hell google microsoft returns reference to this.
# "Horrid Operating System" - Returns "Microsoft Windows Family" homepage as the first result.
# Ignorant Asshole returns the website of Cal Thomas in response to his column on Fox News.
# ignorant bigots - returns the official page of Christian Voice, a fundamentalist Christian organisation in the UK.
# International Sign for Choking in Google Images search used to yield the logo of the Philadelphia Eagles football team, shortly after their defeat in Super Bowl XXXIX. The same search recently showed a logo of the New York Yankees baseball team, in reference to their stunning ALCS loss to the Red Sox in 2004. (As of June 2005, neither of these results are returned)
# Jew - JewWatch, an anti-semitic website operated by Frank Weltner, a white power nationalist, was the number one hit when searching on Google.com for "Jew" in 2005. In early 2006, the Wikipedia entry replaced it following a Googlebombing campaign organized by Daniel Sieradski, editor of the blog Jew School. [3] [4] [5] As of June 2006 the Wikipedia site is again in the number one position, however it appears to be fluctuating regularly. Google added an explanation page entitled Offensive Search Results and placed it in the top sponsored link section for that search and some other Google bombs.
# liar on google.co.uk - returned Tony Blair, the UK Prime Minister, accused of misleading the public over weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. (as of 2005-12-30 Blair was back in first place, with the IMDb page for Liar Liar falling back into second place) He is also first in the world rankings at google.com on top.
# litigious bastards used to give the homepage of the SCO Group, which initiated the SCO v. IBM lawsuit alleging copyright violation in the Linux kernel. bastards also worked.
# lying sack of shit Used to return the Parliamentary web page of Australian Federal Attorney General Phillip Ruddock. This bomb was suggested by weezil and executed by a number of Australian bloggers in protest of Ruddock's criticism of Mamdouh Habib
# McDonalds, returns with the currently (as of July 2006) second place the official website of the anti-fast food documentary Super Size Me.
# Miserable failure, miserable worst president worst president ever and great president brings up the official George W. Bush biography from the US White House web site. Due to the search query of "miserable failure," the search terms miserable and failure (each word that comprises miserable failure used on their own) also point to the biography of George W. Bush, with Jimmy Carter ranking number two and Michael Moore third. Unelectable points to the biography on the White House's homepage. Interestingly enough, www.unelectable.com used to point to the same page, and was second in Google's Search for "unelectable." See also miserable failure. With the addition of Google Local and Maps, searching for the phrase in Washington DC provides George W. Bush's residence (Listed as the "US Executive Mansion") as the first result.
# National Disgrace - returns the official MLB biography of Bud Selig, commissioner of Major League Baseball. The Googlebomb was organized to highlight MLB's poor negotiations the Montreal Expos with in the process of moving to Washington, D.C.
# Old Rice And Monkey Nuts returns the website of Herald Sun columnist Andrew Bolt. The phrase is an obscure reference to Tirath Khemlani, a Pakistani commodities trader. The bomb was perpetrated at the suggestion of Ausculture for reasons unknown.
# Opportunist - Links to the web site for the former leader of the opposition in the UK, Michael Howard.
# Oreo brings up an article near the top about Michael S. Steele.
# "Out of Touch Executives" - Used to lead to Google's own corporate information page. "Out of Touch Management" used to work as well.
# poodle on UK domains only
Current Mood: Happy
Current Music: --
# "Arabian Gulf" - points to an error look-alike page saying that "the gulf you are looking for does not exist." The page links to the Wikipedia entry on the Persian Gulf, alternative English name for the body of water east of the Arabian Peninsula and south of Iran.
# Asshole - A site highly critical of the current government of the United States.
# Awful Announcer brings you to the official website of frequently criticized baseball color commentator Tim McCarver
# "Be Afraid" brings up Ready.Gov, the official website of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
# Bill Napoli brings up an extremely negative definition of South Dakota Republican Senator Bill Napoli. Created by the Smart Bitches, it is based on comments he made after a bill in the South Dakota State Legislature was passed that, if it stands up to the scrutiny of the United States Supreme Court, will ban abortion in that state.
# "bunch of luddites" - points to the homepage of the Motion Picture Association of America.
# Chuck Norris - A recent attempt to place one of the infamous Chuck Norris 'facts' in the #1 Google ranking for searches on Chuck Norris. This page is not currently ranked on the search engine, and the link points to the third-party target page with no affiliation to Google itself. It says in red letters "Google won't search for Chuck Norris because it knows you don't find Chuck Norris, he finds you."
# First against the wall - Used to return the Wikipedia entry on Karl Rove.
# Food Nazis - Points to Center for Science in the Public Interest.
# French military victories - see French military victories (practical joke). Points to a faked Google error page noting there are no French military victories.
# "Fucking Incredible" - Opens up the home page of the "Facepunch Studios" forums. These are the main forums of Garry's Mod, a popular "Sandbox" mod for Half-Life 2 Google Bomb originally organized in a thread started by Facepunch Studios user, TheBlackViper
# fuckwit returns (in second place) John Prescott who is Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
# gastrointestinal dysentery returns Kres Chophouse & Lounge in Orlando, Florida, a restaurant that fired a server for blogging about work.
# hell used to put Microsoft's homepage in the top spot. Searching for hell google microsoft returns reference to this.
# "Horrid Operating System" - Returns "Microsoft Windows Family" homepage as the first result.
# Ignorant Asshole returns the website of Cal Thomas in response to his column on Fox News.
# ignorant bigots - returns the official page of Christian Voice, a fundamentalist Christian organisation in the UK.
# International Sign for Choking in Google Images search used to yield the logo of the Philadelphia Eagles football team, shortly after their defeat in Super Bowl XXXIX. The same search recently showed a logo of the New York Yankees baseball team, in reference to their stunning ALCS loss to the Red Sox in 2004. (As of June 2005, neither of these results are returned)
# Jew - JewWatch, an anti-semitic website operated by Frank Weltner, a white power nationalist, was the number one hit when searching on Google.com for "Jew" in 2005. In early 2006, the Wikipedia entry replaced it following a Googlebombing campaign organized by Daniel Sieradski, editor of the blog Jew School. [3] [4] [5] As of June 2006 the Wikipedia site is again in the number one position, however it appears to be fluctuating regularly. Google added an explanation page entitled Offensive Search Results and placed it in the top sponsored link section for that search and some other Google bombs.
# liar on google.co.uk - returned Tony Blair, the UK Prime Minister, accused of misleading the public over weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. (as of 2005-12-30 Blair was back in first place, with the IMDb page for Liar Liar falling back into second place) He is also first in the world rankings at google.com on top.
# litigious bastards used to give the homepage of the SCO Group, which initiated the SCO v. IBM lawsuit alleging copyright violation in the Linux kernel. bastards also worked.
# lying sack of shit Used to return the Parliamentary web page of Australian Federal Attorney General Phillip Ruddock. This bomb was suggested by weezil and executed by a number of Australian bloggers in protest of Ruddock's criticism of Mamdouh Habib
# McDonalds, returns with the currently (as of July 2006) second place the official website of the anti-fast food documentary Super Size Me.
# Miserable failure, miserable worst president worst president ever and great president brings up the official George W. Bush biography from the US White House web site. Due to the search query of "miserable failure," the search terms miserable and failure (each word that comprises miserable failure used on their own) also point to the biography of George W. Bush, with Jimmy Carter ranking number two and Michael Moore third. Unelectable points to the biography on the White House's homepage. Interestingly enough, www.unelectable.com used to point to the same page, and was second in Google's Search for "unelectable." See also miserable failure. With the addition of Google Local and Maps, searching for the phrase in Washington DC provides George W. Bush's residence (Listed as the "US Executive Mansion") as the first result.
# National Disgrace - returns the official MLB biography of Bud Selig, commissioner of Major League Baseball. The Googlebomb was organized to highlight MLB's poor negotiations the Montreal Expos with in the process of moving to Washington, D.C.
# Old Rice And Monkey Nuts returns the website of Herald Sun columnist Andrew Bolt. The phrase is an obscure reference to Tirath Khemlani, a Pakistani commodities trader. The bomb was perpetrated at the suggestion of Ausculture for reasons unknown.
# Opportunist - Links to the web site for the former leader of the opposition in the UK, Michael Howard.
# Oreo brings up an article near the top about Michael S. Steele.
# "Out of Touch Executives" - Used to lead to Google's own corporate information page. "Out of Touch Management" used to work as well.
# poodle on UK domains only
Current Mood: Happy
Current Music: --