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#165330 01/20/2007 3:53 AM
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Somebody told me this. If you haven't been told, here we go:

1. Go to Google.com
2. Search "failure" by pressing the button "I'm feeling lucky", NOT "Search"!
3. If Google hasn't fixed the problem, what you get will be:...



I don't know how Google's algorithm is designed to bring out such a result. Association Rule? Or somebody in Google is sabotaging?

Last edited by callithump; 01/20/2007 3:56 AM.

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#165331 01/20/2007 5:15 AM
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Carpal Tunnel
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two things:

1) there's nothing magical about the "lucky" button; it merely shows you the current most popular hit for that search string. (go ahead, try the search button)

b) here's the explanation, from Google[Blog]

#165332 01/20/2007 12:06 PM
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I don't know how Google's algorithm is designed to bring out such a result. Association Rule? Or somebody in Google is sabotaging?

It's people outside of Google trying to influence the rank of a page. It's so popular it has a name; it's called Google bombing.


Ceci n'est pas un seing.

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