11.24.04
Posted in culture at 12:37 am by
If one is to google the phrase “bad christian”–which I do as a mostly benign act of pure narcissism from time to time–these are the results. Unfortunately, I didn’t make the first page (though I did make the second before the pagebreak.)
The website that DID manage to make google’s bad christian wall of shame are the fools…oops folks–Freudian slip–down at Worldview Weekend. I can’t say for sure that my posts about the silliness these yahoos engage in had anything at all to do with their placement at the top of google’s ‘bad christian search,’ but what poetic justice if it did.
By the way, if you haven’t heard of the term google bomb, 1) you’ve been hiding under a rock in cyberspace and 2) it’s a term that describes an act done by people–often bloggers–as an act of non-violent info-terrorism.
Basically, as I understand it, what happens is someone gets the idea to start posting the same words…for example “Worldview Weekend.” And, they set those words up to link to another page. This, for example links the phrase “Worldview Weekend” to my thoughts on their worldview test for dummies.
Most normal folks don’t think much of this. However, google’s spyderbots–at least the unthoughtful ones–surf on through, see some text, read the link, and make the assumption that the two are related. In the above case, Google might get the idea that the phrase “Worldview Weekend” is somehow linked with my Bad Christian litmus test. Usually this works best when lots of folks participate in such silliness by coming together to make the phrases in question and the non-traditional pages they link to a pattern. (Not that I’m suggesting that y’all start linking these Worldview Weekend folks to me…although…it would be fodder for some discussion around these parts.)
I think Michael Main tried this a few months back linking the word untrustworthy to a bank or some other financial institution who had treated him poorly. I don’t know if it worked…but I kind of hope it did. That sort of thing works wonders for my warped sense of justice.
UPDATE: I just rechecked the google listing. I’m almost positive now that my little google-bomb did, in fact, do the voodoo that it should do so well. The page that Google points to is the same that I pointed to in my ‘bad christian litmus test’ link. Oh my, what a day.
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Posted in culture at 12:37 am by
If one is to google the phrase “bad christian”–which I do as a mostly benign act of pure narcissism from time to time–these are the results. Unfortunately, I didn’t make the first page (though I did make the second before the pagebreak.)
The website that DID manage to make google’s bad christian wall of shame are the fools…oops folks–Freudian slip–down at Worldview Weekend. I can’t say for sure that my posts about the silliness these yahoos engage in had anything at all to do with their placement at the top of google’s ‘bad christian search,’ but what poetic justice if it did.
By the way, if you haven’t heard of the term google bomb, 1) you’ve been hiding under a rock in cyberspace and 2) it’s a term that describes an act done by people–often bloggers–as an act of non-violent info-terrorism.
Basically, as I understand it, what happens is someone gets the idea to start posting the same words…for example “Worldview Weekend.” And, they set those words up to link to another page. This, for example links the phrase “Worldview Weekend” to my thoughts on their worldview test for dummies.
Most normal folks don’t think much of this. However, google’s spyderbots–at least the unthoughtful ones–surf on through, see some text, read the link, and make the assumption that the two are related. In the above case, Google might get the idea that the phrase “Worldview Weekend” is somehow linked with my Bad Christian litmus test. Usually this works best when lots of folks participate in such silliness by coming together to make the phrases in question and the non-traditional pages they link to a pattern. (Not that I’m suggesting that y’all start linking these Worldview Weekend folks to me…although…it would be fodder for some discussion around these parts.)
I think Michael Main tried this a few months back linking the word untrustworthy to a bank or some other financial institution who had treated him poorly. I don’t know if it worked…but I kind of hope it did. That sort of thing works wonders for my warped sense of justice.
UPDATE: I just rechecked the google listing. I’m almost positive now that my little google-bomb did, in fact, do the voodoo that it should do so well. The page that Google points to is the same that I pointed to in my ‘bad christian litmus test’ link. Oh my, what a day.
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Wow said,
November 26, 2004 at 4:04 pm
That’s the kind of bombing I can get into. (Bath bombs are great too… sugar bombs….)