So Google have diffused the bomb, have they? Apparently not!

Last year Google announced that they had ended the Googlebomb “phenomenon” which had George Bush’s Whitehouse page rank top for the term ‘miserable failure’ for about two years. It now looks like that announcement was premature, to say the least - since then “internet terrorists” Anonymous managed to get the homepage of the Scientology “religion” to rank for the term ‘dangerous cult’ for a short while, and it now emerges that some jokers have got George Dubya’s homepage back up there, this time for the phrase ‘who is a failure‘.

So it appears that the Googlebomb is far from diffused, it just seems that Google have started to pay more attention to the problem, given that it exposes a glaring issue within the algorithm, when external factors can be manipulated to force a page to rank for a totally irrelevant (or so some would say) term.

So Google, nice try, but you fail!

P.S Remember in the film “Swingers”, where Vince Vaughn is asking Jon Favreau “who’s the big winner here, huh? That’s right, Mikey’s the big winner! Mikey wins!”.

Seriously, how much would you like to go up and deliver that line to GWB, just replacing the word “winner” with “loser”. I guess that’s kind of what these guys have done. Nice work!