It’s Googlebombing time.
| April 10th, 2004Swiped from Notes from the Tundra:
An anti-semitic group has googlebombed the word “Jew” so that searches for the word make their own own nasty page Google’s first hit. When you type in “jew” and hit “I’m feeling lucky” on Google, you get to their website. If you link to wikipedia’s page for it, like this ~ Jew ~ then eventually, google’s first hit will end up there.
Jew, jew, jew, jew, jew, jew, jew
(If you’re not familiar with it, you can read more about google bombing here.)
April 10th, 2004 at 10:59 am
Google Bomb
This comment was written by feministe.Jew Jew Jew Jew Jew Jew Jew Jew Jew Jew Jew Jew Jew Explanation here….
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April 10th, 2004 at 11:29 am
Oh my… done! (scroll to bottom.) I assume that is sufficient for the google bomb?
It obviously would help even more if I had content instead of just stuff in an isolated word with a link. Do you happen to know any Jewish knitters?
Also, do you know… does it help to add the word and link to many pages at the same site?
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April 10th, 2004 at 1:05 pm
And there are some more informative pages about Jew at this Jew site. Also some religious Jew information, and a dating site for single Jews. (It’d be nice to get the offending site off the front page entirely!)
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April 10th, 2004 at 2:23 pm
Googlebombing (again)
This comment was written by Watermark.JewJewJewJewJewJew See here, or here, or here, or here . . . I did this some time ago, on my sidebar, with links to a variety of sources; but on checking today I see that this effort has still not been successful. I am dismayed.
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April 10th, 2004 at 3:29 pm
I believe (techies please correct me if I’m wrong) that Google’s rating system depends on how many different sites are associating a site with a word. So I don’t think that multiple reiterations of the link at the same URL has much effect.
If you have webspace elsewhere, though, then it would probably help to stick a link there. I have an old Geocities site that I never use for anything these days, so I inserted a few links there, just to help out.
The fight back does seem to be having some effect, by the way. An LJ user (unfortunately, I forget who right now) reported two days ago that the Wikipedia entry had made it to number one, but the hate-mongers would seem to be fighting back, as it immediately dropped back down to #2. :-( Still, Wikipedia has risen from #3 to #2 and stayed there for a number of days now, so the effort clearly is having some permanent effect.
What disturbs me most about this, actually, is the idea that there are enough hateful websites out there to have made this happen. Ick.
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April 10th, 2004 at 3:41 pm
Carpet Bombing
This comment was written by Geekery Today.At last, a bombing campaign that I can support. As it turns out, certain anti-Semitic imbeciles have gotten their nutsoid conspiracy site (charmingly entitled JewWatch,…
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April 10th, 2004 at 4:08 pm
I see that the Wikipedia page is up to #2, so just a little more linking will get it to #1. Multiple links from the same page probably don’t help. Depending on what defenses Google uses against scamming, it might even hurt (the way search engines stopped paying attention to “meta” keywords a while back because of widespread abuse).
I suggest that everyone link “Jew” to the Wikipedia page, and once that page reaches #1, start linking to the other appropriate pages in the top 10. Continue until the Nazi page is pushed down.
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April 10th, 2004 at 4:12 pm
Also, it would be better to put one reference from the word “Jew” to the Wikipedia page on the front page of the blog, since pages with a lot of links to them are weighted more heavily by Google. If it’s in an article, that article will soon drop off the front page.
Blogs could have a sidebar section called “anti-googlebombing” for this purpose. It would work best if people use this to correct abuse, rather than engaging in abuse. Yes, I was amused that searching for “miserable failure” finds George Bush, but I’d rather have Google just work.
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April 10th, 2004 at 4:17 pm
Carpet Bombing
This comment was written by Geekery Today.At last, a bombing campaign that I can support. As it turns out, certain anti-Semitic imbeciles have gotten their nutsoid conspiracy site (charmingly entitled JewWatch,…
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April 10th, 2004 at 5:18 pm
I put my “jew” link at the bottom, with a note indicatign its purpose is anti-google bombing.
Actually, I just established a blog for my knitters.. at (strangely) http:.//www.thedietdiary.com/blog
I may be able to convince some to put up anti-google bombs mssgs.
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April 10th, 2004 at 7:39 pm
Jew
This comment was written by Brian Flemming.I just wanted to take this opportunity to draw your attention to the entry for “Jew” on Wikipedia. Why? Alas, A Blog has an explanation….
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April 10th, 2004 at 8:23 pm
Jew
This comment was written by Brian Flemming.I just wanted to take this opportunity to draw your attention to the entry for “Jew” on Wikipedia. Why? Alas, A Blog has an explanation. More in the comments….
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April 10th, 2004 at 9:08 pm
Good news! The Wikipedia site is at the top!
I’ve done it too, to help keep it there, but I’m proud of the blogosphere’s response. Go us!
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April 10th, 2004 at 11:12 pm
Just did it, too, with a quote from the Wikipedia entry including related links (namely the paragraph about “smaller groups of Jews”, which is really informative: I did know about the Falacha and, of course, the Romaniotes, but not so much about India’s Bene Israel and Cochin Jews).
However, that infamous site is on top again, and Wikipedia right after.
This comment was written by Jimmy Ho (inna Taipei).(Jake, something must have been missing in your HTML tag, your link is not working).
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April 11th, 2004 at 10:16 am
Try this
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April 11th, 2004 at 10:18 am
Weirdness. I can’t figure out why it’s not working, I’m doing the tags right. Huh. Well, the link is http://www.livejournal.com/users/w1ldc47/10315.html, so I guess you could just cut and paste. Sorry about that.
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April 11th, 2004 at 10:33 am
Done. Thanks for sharing this.
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April 11th, 2004 at 1:07 pm
The sad thing is that I saw a number of shall we say ‘right wing sites’ urging people not to do this because it would be bad for the google system.
Happy Easter, indeed!
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April 11th, 2004 at 3:56 pm
Not do what? Not add the links to Wikipedia? Or not add the links to the hatemongering site?
Of course, both, in some sense are bad for the google system… but are we supposed to just let hatemongers screw it up?
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April 11th, 2004 at 8:16 pm
Of course, both, in some sense are bad for the google system… but are we supposed to just let hatemongers screw it up?
Yeah, agreed, and besides, the Wikipedia entry is at least a relatively neutral informative source. It’s better than fighting a hate site with…oh, I dunno, a link to a “convert to Judaism now!” site (if such a thing even exists), or to a rabidly Zionist site, or something like that.
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April 11th, 2004 at 10:02 pm
Linking the word “Jew” to an encyclopedia discussion of the term is not Google abuse; it makes Google work better. If a child in an area where there are few Jews hears the term, and does a search on it, she will find a good answer on its meaning from Wikipedia.
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April 11th, 2004 at 10:34 pm
Judaism is an intrinsically non-prostletyizing religion (if I spelled that right). If you do find a “convert to Judaism” site, please send me the link. It should be hilarious.
(sorry, I don’t mean to mock you, if that seems like it’s a mocking tone. It’s just that there’s all these hilarious “convert to Judaism” imagery that’s randomly popping to my head)
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April 12th, 2004 at 3:41 am
Lucia:
Not add a link to Wikipedia.
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April 12th, 2004 at 8:31 am
Done.
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April 12th, 2004 at 1:56 pm
bomb this, anti-semites.
This comment was written by wicked thoughts.I saw this propagating over LiveJournal a week or so ago but forgot to bring it over here until Amp posted about it. My small contribution to the anti anti-semitism…
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April 12th, 2004 at 2:02 pm
When Googlebombs go bad
This comment was written by Irrational Bush Hatred.Alas, a Blog alerts my attention to some online nastiness.
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April 12th, 2004 at 10:39 pm
Jake:
Thanks, I copied-pasted the URL and was able to see your post.
The proper tag is as follows, with “inferior/superior to” signs instead of brackets:
[a href="http://www.livejournal.com/users/w1ldc47/10315.html"]Jake’s link[/a]
After replacing the brackets, you should get:
Jake’s link
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April 12th, 2004 at 11:12 pm
Alas, they’re still on top. Nonetheless, I’m somehow reassured to see that the corresponding keyword on Google France (”juif“), brings a “jewish marriage” site on the first rank (and the “liberal”, i.e. progressive Jewish Movement is third, not bad at all).
I’m even more glad to see that the first result for youtairen 猶太人 (”Jew”) on Google Taiwan is the Chinese-language Wiki entry (in fact, that’s more or less symbolic, since the entry consists currently in only one sentence: “The Jews are the followers of the Jewish religion”).
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April 13th, 2004 at 1:38 am
Judaism is an intrinsically non-prostletyizing religion (if I spelled that right). If you do find a “convert to Judaism” site, please send me the link. It should be hilarious.
(sorry, I don’t mean to mock you, if that seems like it’s a mocking tone. It’s just that there’s all these hilarious “convert to Judaism” imagery that’s randomly popping to my head)
Absolutely no mockage inferred, Raznor! I had the same amusement. I imagined a website that would crash your computer the first three times you clicked on its link. ;-)
People are so very wacky, though, that I felt convinced there had to be one out there, so I went looking. Well…desultorily looking. “Looking,” as in “checking out the first page of Google results.” You’ll be pleased to know that no loony evangelical Jewish sites came up.
Sort of a relief, that, really.
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April 13th, 2004 at 9:29 am
Google-bomb Time
This comment was written by Lean Left.According to Ampersand at Alas, a Blog some anti-Semitic organization has googled-bombed the word Jew so that the first hit…
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April 13th, 2004 at 10:59 am
bomb this, anti-semites.
This comment was written by wicked thoughts.I saw this propagating over LiveJournal a week or so ago but forgot to bring it over here until Amp posted about it. My small contribution to the anti anti-semitism…
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April 13th, 2004 at 11:23 am
bomb this, anti-semites.
This comment was written by wicked thoughts.I saw this propagating over LiveJournal a week or so ago but forgot to bring it over here until Amp posted about it. My small contribution to the anti anti-semitism…
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April 14th, 2004 at 7:21 am
On Google Bombs
This comment was written by DFMoore: Pizzazz, a Yellow Jacket, and a Phoenix.I WENT to check on the progress today and the Jew googlebomb has worked (information about it here)! I’M ALWAYS a little hesitant to get involved in googlebombing projects (even one that is so obviously beneficial to me) because I…
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April 14th, 2004 at 7:31 am
On Google Bombs
This comment was written by DFMoore: Pizzazz, a Yellow Jacket, and a Phoenix.I WENT to check on the progress today and the Jew googlebomb has worked (information about it here)! I’M ALWAYS a little hesitant to get involved in googlebombing projects (even one that is so obviously beneficial to me) because I…
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April 18th, 2004 at 5:30 pm
Jew
This comment was written by Brian Flemming.I just wanted to take this opportunity to draw your attention to the entry for “Jew” on Wikipedia. Why? Alas, A Blog has an explanation. More in the comments….
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April 20th, 2004 at 10:16 pm
Jew
This comment was written by Brian Flemming.Fighting anti-Semitism, one search result at a time.
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April 21st, 2004 at 5:50 pm
Jew
This comment was written by Brian Flemming.Fighting anti-Semitism, one search result at a time.
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June 10th, 2004 at 10:42 am
Go away, you nasty spamming p**pyhead!
(Amp, did you know I can say “fuck” on the blog, but I can’t say p**p; it’s considered objectionable.
But I like the word p**pyhead. It’s funnier than “shithead”–another word that means the same thing, except it’s cruder and it’s allowed. Anyhow, not protesting–it’s your blog. I’m just pointing it out in case you didn’t know it.)
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June 10th, 2004 at 10:54 am
(Sheelzebub was talking to a spam post I’ve just deleted, not to Elkins!)
Sheezlebub, just for you, I’ve modified my spamblocker to allow the word “poop.” So poop-talk as much as you’d like!
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August 5th, 2004 at 11:01 pm
Poop, I say.
Poop.
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