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Brits To Googlebomb Islamic Extremists

Well, if you can’t bomb terrorists directly, Google-bomb them I guess. Reportedly, the British government will be training sympathetic Islamic groups to use SEO in order to drown out extremist voices popping up in the search results.

In a different, saner world, we used to call that “government propaganda,” even if it seems used for a good end in this case. But imagine government officials in the future returning googlebomb volley to citizen googlebombers. You think the SERPs a are warzone now, just wait!

Matt McGee at Search Engine land is happy to note how Fox News’ describes SEO as “arcane strategy.” Yeah, Fox thinks it’s some kind of computer geek voodoo. No wonder Rupert Murdoch is gunning for Google lately. He thinks search is one of the dark arts!

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Comment by Amelia Vargo Subscribed to comments via email
2009-04-17 03:51:59

This is a bit of a slippery slope!

A web designer friend of mine used to say SEO was a dark art, I always thought that was because he didn’t understand it. Perhaps Murdoch doesn’t understand it either?

 
Comment by Asad Subscribed to comments via email
2009-09-17 06:18:54

this is a islmic education website
schools,modern,islamic,crriculum
http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/

 
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