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'Googlebomb' blows up in Daily Mail hack's face

Went Hot: August 28, 2008 - 7:07 am
Posted By: ciaran 96 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.theregister.co.uk)
Category: Google SEO

A journalist at British paper the Daily Mail wrote a piece about what she thought was a case of Googlebombing. It wasn't. But now the journalist in question is (kind of) a victim of a Googlebomb herself (I know she's not really, but you have to love what now happens if you search for her name).

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from Lyndon 96 days ago #

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Nnnnngg, I hate the Daily Mail and I hate having to see it on digg all the time. When is the Independant going to get their act together.

from ciaran 96 days ago #

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This is one of the funniest things I'd read in ages. As for Daily Mail & Digg - it's just another reason not to go there...

from Lyndon 96 days ago #

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Some of us have to go to digg, it's a work thing.

from Lisadit 96 days ago #

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lol, this made me chuckle.

from ciaran 96 days ago #

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Lyndon - I feel your pain!

;)

from ChrisOD 96 days ago #

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Anything that results in a Daily Mail journo being linked to the word 'idiot' deserves a healthy sphinn in my book.

Now, just to get 'Bigoted Rag' to link to said newspaper...

*Disclaimer - I don't really think that Daily Mail journos are idiots and I would like to state that the paper itself is a bastion of fairness and equality*

from peteyoung 96 days ago #

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Class

from jc1000000 96 days ago #

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Ah, chucklicious. I love the Reg's statement of sympathy:

"It's the scrag-end of August and news is hard to come by, especially for the Daily Mail: the Royal Family are away badger racing, paedophiles have retreated to their subterranean volcano lairs and even swan-roasting Albanian asylum seekers have gone south to avoid the Global-Warming-Chaos of the British summer."

from jc1000000 96 days ago #

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LOL this DailyMail 'factbox', mistaking plain old SEO for Googlebombing, makes one feel sooo dirty & sordid!

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/08/22/article-1048296-0262F62200000578-548_468x233.jpg

from ciaran 96 days ago #

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I guess that really we're the ones who have been made to look like idiots - mistaking the Daily Mail for a real newspaper...

from mjwalshe 96 days ago #

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The Daily mail is recruiting for a SEO position at the moment i had a recruiter pitch me that position

from ciaran 96 days ago #

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You sure it wasn't for Northcliffe Associated Digital? Owned by the same company but does their classified business mainly (yep, got the same call....

from g1smd 96 days ago #

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She also writes for The Sun I see.

from g1smd 96 days ago #

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Is this typical level of writing? http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article85048.ece

from ChrisOD 95 days ago #

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That's a pretty in-depth and high-brow article for the Sun to be honest.

I'm guessing it was on their political page in the actual paper.

from comscout 95 days ago #

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Julie Moult is an idiot

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