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Posted by Katja Riefler 11:55 AM January 4, 2006
How to Kill Information on the Web
It's a common thought that you can't call back any information once it's been published on the Internet, isn't it? Maybe. But does the existence of this information matter, if it can't be found by any search engine any more?

The German blogosphere right now is running a test to build a special kind of "Google bomb." This time it's not about hyping a website on "weapons of mass destruction" to the top position. It's about winning all the results! The information to be eliminated: bad jokes about blondes ("Blondinenwitze").

Here's the way to achieve this: Each blogger links to " the best Blondinenwitz I've ever heard of" (wording is free to choose).

Not convinced that it works? Try it. And watch Google. Bloggers had already occupied the ranks 4 to 10 on the first result page on Blondinenwitz at the time of this writing. (Actually, they climbed from position 5 to 4 while I was writing this.)
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