From vinayakh@gmail.com Sun Aug 22 17:49:46 2004
From: Vinayak Hegde <vinayakh@gmail.com>
To: linuxers@mm.ilug-bom.org.in
Subject: Re: [ILUG-BOM] [Humor] SCOpe for a laugh
Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2004 17:57:53 +0530
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On Sat, 21 Aug 2004 23:32:28 +0530, Vickram Crishna
<vvcrishna(a)radiophony.com> wrote:
> Apologies if you've seen this one before, but...
> 
> bring up Google's search page, type 'bastards' and click on I'm
> Feeling Lucky...

Hi,

SCO has snatched the crown from Microsoft as open source
evangelist's punching bag. It was hilarious to know that conspiracy 
theorists on this list were spinning stories about google 
manipulating  the results. As any technology google's page ranking 
mechanism has it's flaws. When many people link to a webpage like 
this <a href=www.sco.com> bastards </a> the rank for sco.com for 
the keywords bastards goes up. This is known as a "google bomb"
This will happen when many bloggers do this kinds of links.
Just goes to show the "power of blogging".

more info here (thanks google :D)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_bomb
http://www.microcontentnews.com/articles/googlebombs.htm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/1868395.stm

--> Vinayak Hegde

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