Associated Newspapers Guilty of “Google Bombing” ?
Posted by: Beau Bo D'Or in ., tags: Associated Newspapers, Daily Mail, google bombing, julie moult, mail on sundayHaving been stitched up again by the Daily Mail, I had a look at when and where my image was being posted.
Hmmm..
The same article by Julie Moult appears on Google News three times with 2 different headlines in the Mail :
“Blears falls prey to ‘Google Bomb’ Attack Of The 50-inch Woman”
Mail on Sunday, UK - 22 Aug 2008
“Blears and Harman victim of ‘Google bombing’ with Attack of the …”
Daily Mail, UK - 22 Aug 2008
(twice if you check for duplicates.)
“Blears falls prey to ‘Google Bomb’ Attack Of The 50-inch Woman”
Daily Mail, UK - 22 Aug 2008
When Associated ripped my Pete Doherty/Kate Moss image, the same story ran on :
ThisisLondon.co.uk
MailonSunday.co.uk
and
DailyMail.co.uk
According to the Daily Mail, Google Bombing is where cyber pranksters create duplicate sites linking to the same webpage to make it seem more popular.
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