Posts Tagged “google bombing”

So, for those of you new to Julie Moult’s favourite site, there’s links to my more popular images in the left hand column below my T-Shirts spam and a wallpapers page, see the link up there on the top right of the page.
And here’s a rough animation with some exquisitely disturbing music showing a little of what I’ve been up to over the past couple of years.(regulars, scroll down to the next post) :

Music by the late, great Klaus Nomi.

Having 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.