Related link: http://www.google.com/search?&q=failure

If you don’t know the term, here’s a definition of google bomb:

Google bomb: to hyperlink a term to a website in order to raise the linked site’s ranking in a search return result set on Google.

I’ve intentionally written an opaque (but accurate) definition of Google bombing. It’s easy to understand Google bombing in practice.

The most notorious current example of Google bombing - in fact, of Google bombs at war - relates to a search for the term failure. President George W. Bush’s official White House biography comes up first, although film maker Michael Moore’s official site is a close second. These sites have been Google bombed and connected to the word failure in web pages.

The Google PageRank algorithm encourages this kind of “voting” by webmasters - both a strength and weakness of the methodology. (Click here for more of my take on the PageRank algorithm.)

I’ve already voted twice in this piece for George W. Bush as the failure of the two, and now let me stack the votes some more: failure, failure, failure!

Any other Google bomb wars we should know about?