Authors@Google Talk: Ken Jennings
Cool Authors@Google Talk: Ken Jennings talks about his experiences on Jeopardy! and his new book, Brainiac.
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Cool Authors@Google Talk: Ken Jennings talks about his experiences on Jeopardy! and his new book, Brainiac.
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Hey Avi...you work at Google...do a search for "failure" and see the #1 result. From google's website: "We don't manually assign keywords to sites, nor do we manipulate the ranking of any site in our search results." Yeah, right... Who do we e-mail to complain about this to?
Posted by: adina | October 30, 2006 3:04 PM
Did you read the sponsored link ( http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/09/googlebombing-failure.html ) at the top? People google-bombed us. We don't manually adjust results. Period. If lots of people choose to link like that, that's how it goes. The statement that Google doesn't manually assign results for search terms is absolutely true.
Posted by: Avi | October 30, 2006 3:15 PM
Gotcha...sorry for automatically jumping on google like that, it just seemed mighty fishy... and I had never heard of "googlebombing"
Posted by: adina | October 30, 2006 3:52 PM
No problem. Note that we automatically put a notice up at the top, trying to explain what's going on. But we have a strong rule never to fiddle with results directly.
Posted by: Avi | October 30, 2006 4:06 PM