Official list of google BOMBS
A Google Bomb or Google washer is a certain attempt to influence the ranking of a given page in results returned by the Google search engine, often with humorous or political intentions. Due to the way that Google's PageRank algorithm works, a page will be ranked higher if the sites that link to that page all use consistent anchor text. A Google bomb is created if a large number of sites link to the page in this manner. Google bomb is used both as a verb and a noun.
Accomplished Google bombs
Note that Google results fluctuate regularly and the bombed results may move up and down. Most often they will be displaced by a news article describing the bomb.
Recent (as of 2006) and popular examples are:
- "Anne Milton" - points to a very negative blog about Anne Milton,the Conservative MP for Guildford, maintained by a disenchanted constituent.
- "Arabian Gulf" - points to an error look-alike page saying that "the gulf you are looking for does not exist." The page links to the Wikipedia entry on the Persian Gulf, alternative English name for the body of water east of the Arabian Peninsula and south of Iran.
- Asshole - A short informational filmstrip about the current US Administration.
- Aweonao (Chilean slang for asshole) in the Google Image Search service shows Chilean right-wing presidential candidate, Joaquin Lavín.
- Awful Announcer brings you to the official website of frequently criticized baseball color commentator Tim McCarver
- "Bad Ass Mother Fucker" - A deliberate googlebombing on the part of ni9e.com
- "3536 S Lowe" - Former house of Chicago's Mayor Daley
- Bill Napoli brings up an extremely negative definition of South Dakota Republican Senator Bill Napoli. Created by the Smart Bitches, it is based on comments he made after a bill in the South Dakota State Legislature was passed that, if it stands up to the scrutiny of the United States Supreme Court, will ban abortion in that state.
- "bunch of luddites" - points to the homepage of the Motion Picture Association of America.
- Buffone - unofficial Silvio Berlusconi (Italian Prime Minister) biography. "buffone" is the Italian word for "clown".
- Chuck Norris - A recent attempt to place one of the infamous Chuck Norris 'facts' in the #1 Google ranking for searches on Chuck Norris. This page is not currently ranked on the search engine, and the link points to the third-party target page with no affiliation to Google itself.
- Despota Cachaceiro ("Drunk Ruler" in portuguese) used to return the website of Brazilian president Luis Inácio Lula da Silva.
- Estupidez - Points to former Ecuadorian President Lucio Gutierrez's webpage. The page is no longer supported, though the link still exists.
- Estúpido Populista - Points to Mexican presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador Home page.
- First against the wall - Used to return the Wikipedia entry on Karl Rove.
- Food Nazis - Points to Center for Science in the Public Interest.
- French military victories - see French military victories (practical joke). Points to a faked Google page implying there are no French military victories.
- fuckwit returns John Prescott who is Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
- gastrointestinal dysentery returns Kres Chophouse & Lounge in Orlando, Florida, a restaurant that fired a server for blogging about work.
- Gladjakker ("smoothie") returns website of Camiel Eurlings, the leader of the Dutch Christian-Democrat fraction in the European Parliament.
- hell used to put Microsoft's homepage in the top spot. Searching for hell google microsoft returns reference to this.
- "Horrid Operating System" - Returns "Microsoft Windows Family" homepage as the first result.
- Ignorant Asshole returns the website of Cal Thomas in response to this column.
- ignorant bigots - returns the official page of Christian Voice, a fundamentalist Christian organisation in the UK.
- International Sign for Choking in Google Images search use to yield the logo of the Philadelphia Eagles football team, shortly after their defeat in Super Bowl XXXIX. The same search recently showed a logo of the New York Yankees baseball team, in reference to their stunning ALCS loss to the Red Sox in 2004. (As of June 2005, neither of these results are returned)
- jämmerlicher Waschlappen (German slang for "pathetic wimp") returns the government page of Christoph Blocher, a Swiss Federal Councillor.
- Jew - JewWatch, an anti-semitic website operated by Frank Weltner, a white power nationalist, was the number one hit when searching on Google.com for "Jew" in 2005. In early 2006, the Wikipedia entry replaced it following a Googlebombing campaign organized by Daniel Sieradski, editor of the blog Jew School. [3] [4] [5] As of 02 March 2006 the Wikipedia site is again in the number one position, however it appears to be fluctuating regularly. Google added an explanation page entitled Offensive Search Results and placed it in the top sponsored link section.
- kretyn (which means "cretin" in Polish) - returns the page with information about Polish politician Andrzej Lepper
- Iznogoud (a character who wants to become number one) - Points to "Biographie - Nicolas SARKOZY", and "Nicolas Sarkozy" points to "Iznogoud, the movie".
- Ladrones (Spanish for "thieves") and Siempre Ganamos Algunos Euros ("We Always Earn Some Euros") point to the homepage of SGAE, (Sociedad General de Autores y Editores), the Spanish equivalent of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). The SGAE is an extremely unpopular association in Spain since they not only try to prosecute users of P2P applications, but also impose surcharges on the price of physical media such as recordable CDs in order to account for the theoretical losses due to P2P exchanges.
- lažnivec (Slovenian for "liar") points to the page of Bojan Požar, Slovenian yellow press publicist.
- liar on google.co.uk - returned Tony Blair, the UK Prime Minister, accused of misleading the public over weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. (as of 2005-12-30 Blair is back in first place, with the IMDb page for Liar Liar falling back into second place) He is also first in the world rankings at google.com on top.
- litigious bastards used to give the homepage of the SCO Group, which initiated the SCO v. IBM lawsuit alleging copyright violation in the Linux kernel. bastards also worked.
- lying sack of shit Used to return the Parliamentary web page of Australian Federal Attorney General Phillip Ruddock. This bomb was suggested by weezil and executed by a number of Australian bloggers in protest of Ruddock's criticism of Mamdouh Habib
- lul (Dutch for 'dick') used to return the web page of the Belgian politician Hugo Coveliers on google.be.
- Masendav - If you search for the word "masendav" ('frustrating' in Estonian) the top result is The Estonian Center Party page. This also used to work when one typed "masendav" in the Firefox address bar, before masendav.com began.
- Miserabile fallimento - official Silvio Berlusconi (Italian Prime Minister) biography. "miserabile fallimento" is the Italian for "miserable failure".
- Miserable failure, miserable worst president worst president ever and great president brings up the official George W. Bush biography from the US White House web site. Due to the search query of "miserable failure," the search terms miserable and failure (each word that comprises miserable failure used on their own) also point to the biography of George W. Bush, with Jimmy Carter ranking number two and Michael Moore third. Unelectable points to the biography on the White House's homepage. Interestingly enough, www.unelectable.com used to point to the same page, and was second in Google's Search for "unelectable." See also miserable failure. With the addition of Google Local and Maps, searching for the phrase in Washington DC provides George W. Bush's residence (Listed as the "US Executive Mansion") as the first result.
- Miserable, (Spanish for "miserable") links to the Official Biography of ex-minister Angel Acebes.
- Mouton insignifiant (French for "trivial sheep") - returns the official page of Jean Charest, Premier of the province of Quebec, in Canada. It refers to his curly hair. Insignifiant also worked
- National Disgrace - returns the official MLB biography of Bud Selig, commissioner of Major League Baseball. The Googlebomb was organized to highlight MLB's poor negotiations the Montreal Expos with in the process of moving to Washington, D.C.
- O Maior Mentiroso ("The greatest liar" in portuguese) returns the portuguese wikipedia article of the Brazilian president Luis Inácio Lula da Silva.
- Old Rice And Monkey Nuts returns the website of Herald Sun columnist Andrew Bolt. The phrase is an obscure reference to Tirath Khemlani, a Pakistani commodities trader. The bomb was perpetrated at the suggestion of Ausculture for reasons unknown.
- Opportunist - Links to the web site for the former leader of the opposition in the UK, Michael Howard.
- "Out of Touch Executives" - Used to lead to Google's own corporate information page. "Out of Touch Management" used to work as well.
- Pekeng Pangulo or "fake president" in Filipino returns the official page of Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo.
- Searching UK domains only for poodle gives you a link to a Tony Blair biography (dropped to sixth at one stage but has now returned to the #1 spot).
- populista (Slovak for "populist") - returns an official homepage of Robert Fico, a left-wing Slovak politician.
- Ptasia Grypa (Polish for bird flu) on the first place returns the official website of the Polish president Lech Kaczyński. His surname in Polish roughly means ‘duck’.
- purge princess brought up the Senate Campaign blog of Katherine Harris.
- ¿Quién quiere estafarnos? (Spanish for "Who wants to swindle us?") points to the homepage of Telecom, provider of phone and ADSL services in southern Argentina. This bombing was started at http://bombardeo.blogspot.com because of the company's announcement to limit download transfer to 4 GB per month (for 512 kbit/s connections).
- Raar Kapsel ("Weird Haircut" in Dutch) - Returns the biography of the Prime Minister of the Netherlands, Jan Peter Balkenende, who is known for his distinctive hairstyle.
- Santorum - SpreadingSantorum a campaign to ridicule Senator Santorum by naming a mixture of bodily substances after him (see Santorum controversy).
- Scottish Raj returns the website of Gordon Brown, UK Chancellor of the Exchequer. This googlebomb was initiated by The Campaign for an English Parliament news blog, whose author objected to Brown's calls for a renewed sense of Britishness and ambition to become UK Prime Minister when his native Scotland has its own parliament.
- Siedziba szatana (Polish for "Satan's seat") returns the website of Radio Maryja, Polish ultra-Catholic religious and political radio station.
- swivel eyed loons returns the homepage of the UK Independence Party after the phrase - initially used to describe the party by blogger Anthony Wells - was adopted by several British bloggers.
- terrorist sympathizer returns the homepage of Bill O'Reilly, in reference to his comment that "every other place in America is off limits to [terrorists], except San Francisco." Initiated by Daily Kos.
- Totalt fiasko - Used to return the official Göran Persson (Swedish Prime Minister) biography. The phrase is Swedish for "miserable failure".
- Tyhmä lehmä, Finnish for "stupid cow", used to brought up home page of Tanja Karpela, Finnish Culture Minister.
- Velky bratr (Czech for "Big Brother") - returned a biography of Stanislav Gross, former Prime Minister of the Czech Republic.
- völlige Inkompetenz, German for "total incompetence", returns the homepage of Karl-Heinz Grasser, the Austrian minister of finance.
- Vreemdelingenhaat ("Hate for foreign people" in Dutch) - Returns the biography of the Minister of Integration and Immigration, Rita Verdonk, whose policies are controversial.
- Waffles - Used to lead to John Kerry's 2004 election site, originated here.
- Weapons of mass destruction - Internet Explorer Error look-alike joke page saying "weapons of mass destruction cannot be found". (Note: as of 25 March 2006, the joke page, although still available at [6], had fallen to 132nd place in the Google search result.)
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- Similarly, Armas de destruccion masiva, Spanish for "Weapons of mass destruction", gives a Spanish version of the page above.
- Zlodej a klamar (Slovak for Thief and Liar) - returned a personal profile on Slovak National Parliament pages of Vladimír Mečiar, former Prime Minister of the Slovakia, who actually has stolen much money from the slovak nation.
- Zlodej a klamar (Slovak for Thief and Liar) - Another gbomb has beaten previous gbomb on MSN and returned a personal profile of Mikuláš Dzurinda, Prime Minister of the Slovakia, who actually has taken much money from the slovak people.
- ατσαλάκωτος, (Greek for "non creased") linked to the mayor's office of Municipality of Thessaloniki, a profile page for center-right wing New Democracy mayor Vasillis Papageorgopoulos of Thessaloniki, Greece at present.
- Ληστές, (Greek for "thieves") links to OTE, the Greek Telecommunications Organization. This is the result of a mass blogger protest against OTE's abusive charges.
- ψεύτες, (Greek for "liars") linked to New Democracy, a center-right wing Greek polical party that is in the government of Greece at present.
- Враг народа (Russian for "enemy of the people") - links to the official homepage of Vladimir Putin.
- Найти ближайший туалет, (Russian for "find the nearest restroom") - Russian McDonald's addresses appear as the first link. It is common in Russia to link to McDonald's as a place where one can always find a restroom when no others are around or require an entrance fee.
- Лох, (Russian, "moron") - links to several anti-Putin sites, Russian President.
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