Thursday, October 26, 2006

A New Campaign Tactic: Manipulating Google Data - New York Times

Post-90s politics... 

Fifty or so other Republican candidates have also been made targets in a sophisticated “Google bombing” campaign intended to game the search engine’s ranking algorithms. By flooding the Web with references to the candidates and repeatedly cross-linking to specific articles and sites on the Web, it is possible to take advantage of Google’s formula and force those articles to the top of the list of search results.

Source: A New Campaign Tactic: Manipulating Google Data - New York Times

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