Google bombs and such--How to..

[Subbarao Kambhampati <rao@parichaalak.eas.asu.edu>]

 Here is one of the earliest google bombs directed at Bush (using
anchor text, of course)

http://searchenginewatch.com/sereport/01/02-bush.html

By the way, searchenginewatch.com is a good site to keep up with
search engine gossip. 

Also, check out

 http://slate.msn.com/?id=2063699 

for a "lay-public" description of how you fool Google into returning a 
particular site for a particular combination of keywords. You will
figure this out anyway in a week or so after we are done with link
analysis discussion.

Finally, see 

http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/wolf/papers/wolfman-pocsci-2003-nmi.pdf

for a description of  someone's attempts to make their cat famous on
google ;-)


Rao
[Feb 11, 2004]