{"id":2697,"date":"2008-06-12T06:07:57","date_gmt":"2008-06-12T11:07:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2697"},"modified":"2008-06-12T06:07:57","modified_gmt":"2008-06-12T11:07:57","slug":"pattericos-googlebomb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2697","title":{"rendered":"Patterico’s Googlebomb"},"content":{"rendered":"

Google ranks things\u00a0 by how many things link to them – especially linking to the exact search phrase.\u00a0 For example, if you type “Polish Sausage<\/a>” into Google, you get posts sorted as follows:<\/p>\n

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  1. Posts written on the Daily Kos and Huffington Post that reference Polish Sausage<\/li>\n
  2. Posts where the link was in the phrase “Polish Sausage”, sorted in descending order of number of links<\/li>\n
  3. Every other post on the subject, again sorted in descending order of number of links.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    With that in mind, Patterico wants to make sure the word gets out that Barack Obama Sucks<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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    Barack Obama sucks.<\/a><\/p>\n

    Barack Obama sucks<\/a> because he will appoint terrible judges<\/a>.<\/p>\n

    Barack Obama sucks<\/a> because he will make John Edwards the A.G., and Slow Joe Biden the Secretary of State<\/a>.<\/p>\n

    Barack Obama sucks<\/a> because he will seek to pass big-government programs<\/a>.<\/p>\n

    Barack Obama sucks<\/a> because he will cut and run in Iraq<\/a>, risking civil war in that country.<\/p>\n

    Barack Obama sucks<\/a> because he reneges<\/a> on his promises<\/a>.<\/p>\n

    Barack Obama sucks<\/a> because he has surrounded himself with bad people<\/a>.<\/p>\n

    Barack Obama sucks.<\/a><\/p>\n

    My goal is to make sure anyone who uses Google to confirm their belief that Barack Obama sucks<\/a>, will find this post and join the choir.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

    So if you want to know why Barack Obama Sucks<\/a>, run over to Patterico<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Google ranks things\u00a0 by how many things link to them – especially linking to the exact search phrase.\u00a0 For example, if you type “Polish Sausage” into Google, you get posts sorted as follows: Posts written on the Daily Kos and Huffington Post that reference Polish Sausage Posts where the link was in the phrase “Polish […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-08"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}