Gaming the Search Engine, in a Political Season -- NY Times

Interesting article pointing to the future of misinformation

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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/06/business/media/06link.html
Gaming the Search Engine, in a Political Season
By TOM ZELLER Jr.
Published: November 6, 2006
A GOOGLE bomb — which some Web gurus have suggested is perhaps better called a link bomb, in that it affects most search engines — has typically been thought of as something between a prank and a form of protest. The idea is to select a certain search term or phrase (“borrowed time,” for example), and then try to force a certain Web site (say, the Pentagon’s official Donald H. Rumsfeld profile) to appear at or near the top of a search engine’s results whenever that term is queried.....

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