Help with a google bomb

[joecool85]

I'm forwarding this for a friend----

Hello

Josh Whinery and I are attempting a Google Bombing for our final project in NMD 206. For those who don't know what this is, it's basically manipulating the search results of a specific search term on Google. This is done by creating many links to the page from other pages, using the desired search term in the link's anchor text. A famous example of a Google Bomb can be found by searching the word "Failure" on Google and looking at the top search result.

What we need you to do is to "bomb" Google into putting our final piece high on its search result. For our final, we decided to do a page about pollution in Maine (more directly, the landfill issue). The "bomb" comes into play because we want this page to be #1 on Google's search engine for the term "Vacationland". Planting the "bomb" is very simple: all you have to do is link to http://cordova.asap.um.maine.edu/~schallerr/final.html from your own webpage/blog/whatever, and use the word "vacationland" in the hypertext. Here's the html coding for that:

<a href="http://cordova.asap.um.maine.edu/~schallerr/final.html">Vacationland</a>

(please ignore the quality of that website )

This project really needs the cooperation of many to make it work. So please, spread the html code around to everyone you know who owns a webpage. The more links pointing to this website, the higher chance this page makes it to the #1 search position for the word "vacationland".

Thanks you for the assistance. And good luck on finals!

Ryan

 

[Abstract]

Problem with this "bomb" is that nobody is going to search for "Vacationland" (one word) on Google. You'd be better off trying another word.

"Failure" works because it's a common word, it's funny, and it's true when describing the President of the US, and people with too much time on their hands might actually search for it in Google and hit the "I'm Feeling Lucky" button. "Vacationland" isn't a word, isn't really funny, and isn't going to be searched for fun by people with too much time on their hands.

 

[Shamus]

LOL, just searched 'failure' on Google. Loved the first entry.

I dont have a webpage, but Good luck with it anyways, its an interesting concept.

 

[mad jew]

I always thought Google Bombs were written Google-side rather than being a result of public work. Learn something new every day.

Good luck with it.

 

[Boggle]

I'd use the word "paradise"instead

 

[DavidLeblond]

Um, based on the fact that it looks like he's doing this for a class project, I'd say he wouldn't want to use a word such as "paradise" for google bombing. I wouldn't want to bring all that much attention to myself, ya know?

 

[calebjohnston]

I'd use "dookey in the pooper".

 

[joecool85]

Problem with this "bomb" is that nobody is going to search for "Vacationland" (one word) on Google. You'd be better off trying another word.

"Failure" works because it's a common word, it's funny, and it's true when describing the President of the US, and people with too much time on their hands might actually search for it in Google and hit the "I'm Feeling Lucky" button. "Vacationland" isn't a word, isn't really funny, and isn't going to be searched for fun by people with too much time on their hands.

Thanks for the concern, but the reason for using vacationland is because that is maine's nickname.

 

[joecool85]

I wouldn't want to bring all that much attention to myself, ya know?

um...thats the whole point though.

 

[baby duck monge]

um...thats the whole point though.

I took it that the point of this project was just to show that it could be done, not to actually garner all the attention of something like "failure."

 

[thedude110]

Why not "Maine" or "lobster?"

I lived in Maine for only a few years, and am in a position to be slightly a Mainer and largely a person from away. And as far as I can tell, very very very few people from away think of Maine as "vacation land."

 

[eva01]

I am going to assume that the university of maine is a state school and if the state finds out about this they can have the page taken down since it is on their servers.

 

[wordmunger]

Okay, I posted a link on my blog.

Hope it works for you. Here's to vacationland!

edit: Eva01 -- here's the U of Maine Web page policy. I don't see how the page cited violates that policy.

 

[eva01]

edit: Eva01 -- here's the U of Maine Web page policy. I don't see how the page cited violates that policy.

well my thoughts are of this one

We reserve the right to remove pages at any time if we feel any of these policies, or any University policy is being violated.

They randomly create a policy that makes the page violating it. It is possible it could happen but i doubt it.


Good luck with your project anyways!

 

[wordmunger]

So far the project doesn't seem to be going very well. A Google search for the link reveals nothing. Hopefully in a few days Google will at least pick up some of the links.