We Have Seen The End Of The Google Bomb

Ladies and gentlemen, a part of the history of this great country has passed, as the great Google Bomb passes into history. Last week, Google pushed out an algorithm update that defused most of the great Google Bombs, removing the fun practice of innacurately skewing search results from their search engine.
What is/was a Google Bomb? Wikipedia explains:
A Google bomb (also referred to as a ‘link bomb’) is Internet slang for a certain kind of attempt to influence the ranking of a given page in results returned by the Google search engine, often with humorous or political intentions. Because of the way that Google’s algorithm works, a page will be ranked higher if the sites that link to that page use consistent anchor text. A Google bomb is created if a large number of sites link to the page in this manner.

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Original post by Nathan Weinberg