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One more spin attempt bites the dust
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Originally posted by bilmore
Apparently, they bought, from Google, linking rights to several of the most common search strings for this topic, and linked them to their own explanations, trying to keep people away from the more . . . unfriendly descriptions of what was happening. I thought this was very imaginative.
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I have no idea what the BBC was or was not doing with Google, but you don't have to buy anything from Google to manipulate the results it gives. Because Google predicts your interest in a site from the number of other sites that link to it, Google bombing involves linking to a site. To see an example, type "miserable failure" into Google and hit "I'm feeling lucky."
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