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Google defuses bombs

G-men act against Bush pranksters

By Martin Veitch

Friday, 26 January 2007, 13:35

GOOGLE HAS stepped in to get rid of so-called Google Bombs, the manipulation by mass linking to create a search result.

Type in "miserable failure" and you no longer get the Googlebombed return of the US President's office, George W. Bush, Jimmy Carter or Michael Moore.

Danny Sullivan, for it is he, has all the details at Search Engine Land. µ

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