[LCM Articles] I found this interesting

[Saad Shakhshir]

It's not Google developers.  It's a known technique called "Google bombing"
whereby people with webpages use the anchor text within their own pages to
link to a certain page and subsequently increase its page rank.  What this
means is that many people have used the anchor text "failure" and linked to
Georgie's web page.

For more info and many other Google bombs:

http://www.linksandlaw.com/technicalbackground-google-bombing.htm

-SS-

On 8/23/06, Abdallah Jabbour <abdallah.jabbour at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Ha! That page doesn't even have a single occurence of the word "failure".
> It looks like some developer at Google is having fun with static variables
> :)
>
> Abdallah
>
> On 8/23/06, S H <shraybi at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Google the word "failure" and take note to the first entry--try it--it's
> > great!
> >
> >
> >
> > S H
> >
> >
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