What Is a Google Bomb?

A Google bomb is an attempt to prejudice a google listing on Search engines by increasing a Web page's PageRank criteria not only views search phrases when identifying PageRank, it also views the number of other sites that connect to a website and the words used in the connection information.
 
Google bombing is a practise whereby a specific web page is targeted to rank in 1st position in the SERPs for a particular search phrase, so that when that phrase is typed in Google it brings often humorous or controversial results.
 
A Google bomb occurs when a group of people conspire to artificially elevate a website in Google's web search results ranking by linking a particular word or phrase to the website.

Google moved to curb Google bombs by tweaking their formula for ranking pages by relevancy. The changes limited the ability of relatively small groups to create Google bombs, but it did not end it entirely.
 
The terms Google bomb and Googlewashing refer to the practice of causing a web site to rank highly in web search engine results for unrelated or off-topic search terms by linking heavily. In contrast, search engine optimization (SEO) is the practice of improving the search engine listings of web pages for relevant search terms.

It is done for either business, political, or comedic purposes (or some combination thereof).[1] Google's search-rank algorithm ranks pages higher for a particular search phrase if enough other pages linked to it use similar anchor text (linking text such as "miserable failure"). By January 2007, however, Google tweaked its search algorithm to counter popular Google bombs such as "miserable failure" leading to George W. Bush and Michael Moore; now, search results list pages about the Google bomb itself.[2] As of January 2016, the first result in a Google search for "miserable failure" is the Wikipedia article defining Google bomb. Used both as a verb and a noun, "Google bombing" was introduced to the New Oxford American Dictionary in May 2005.[3]

Google bombing is related to spamdexing, the practice of deliberately modifying HTML to increase the chance of their website being placed close to the beginning of search engine results, or to influence the category to which the page is assigned in a misleading or dishonest manner.[4]

The term Googlewashing was coined by Andrew Orlowski in 2003 to describe the use of media manipulation to change the perception of a term, or push out competition from search engine results pages (SERPs)

Source here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_bomb
 
Google bombing refers to black-hat SEO practices aimed at increasing a webpage's rank for a specific Google search by exploiting its algorithm. Google bombing generally involves artificially inflating the number of pages that link to a page and the words used in the link's anchor text.
 
In simple words, a Google Bomb is a kind of spam which is applied in the HTML of the website so that the website can come into the search results at good position.
 
The terms Google bomb and Googlewashing refer to the practice of causing a web site to rank highly in web search engine results for unrelated or off-topic search terms by linking heavily. In contrast, search engine optimization (SEO) is the practice of improving the search engine listings of web pages for relevant search terms.
 
An attempt to make a search term return a website for an unexpected person or organization when entered in a search engine (typically for satirical or humorous purposes) by the creation of numerous links to that website from pages including the search term.
 
A Google bomb occurs when a group of people conspire to artificially elevate a web site in Google's web search results ranking by linking.
 
an attempt to make a search term return a website for an unexpected person or organization when entered in a search engine (typically for satirical or humorous purposes) by the creation of numerous links to that website from pages including the search term.
"police said the suspect confessed to writing a program to test his skills at creating a Google bomb"
 
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