By Rosa Golijan
Now if you search for the word "murder" on Google, the first result will take you to the Wikipedia entry for the term. The second result will take you to the Wikipedia entry for abortion. What's going on here?
Boing Boing reports that commenters in the Internet community Reddit people seem to have noticed this phenomenon before and explained that it is probably the result of Google-bombing.
Google-bombing is a way to influence Google search results using as search engine algorithm ranks the links. You see, most frequently a particular phrase or word link to a specific site, the more likely looking for a phrase or a Word will take you to the site — even though the two are not linked at all.
There were several incidents of Google-bombing of the past that may have heard:
There is no word on who is behind the murder/Google bomb abortion like no particular group took credit for the Act. The folks at blog of interest of the woman Jezebel suggests that most likely is a group of anti-abortion activists — which sounds like a reasonable guess just like no one else has anything to gain from the whole thing.
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Rosa Golijan writes about tech here and there. You may be obsessed with Twitter, but still loves to be liked on Facebook.
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