Google's machine

After years of taking a fairly laissez-faire attitude toward googlebombing, Google has now taken action to stop the practice. It has incorporated into its search engine a googlebomb-sniffing algorithm that somehow identifies and neutralizes any concerted effort to skew search results for a given phrase (such as, most famously, tying "miserable failure" to the White House site). That's fine with me. It's like scrubbing graffiti off the side of a subway car. Full Story »

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Ari Hakkarainen
3.2
by Ari Hakkarainen - Oct. 1, 2008

Because of its popularity, Google has so much influence on the information Internet users discover and read. Yet, the company releases very little information about itself and its most important technologies. The story is a good reminder about the black box people trust without thinking too much about it.

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