Google’s official blog today had an interesting post about its stance on Googlebombing (where a group of people get together and raise one result higher by linking to it). They specifically were reacting to how if you do a search on Google for “failure” you’ll find a page about George Bush.
UPDATE: this post originally appeared in 2005 (I didn’t remember it from back then). Turns out that RSS kicked out a new version of this post. Both Bloglines and Google Reader users saw it again (that’s where I saw it).
So, this is actually a bug in the RSS system.
Scobleizer 
“Today”? That post’s from 2005!
(Bloglines showed a whole bunch of old Google Blog posts as new today; I guess Google Reader did too, huh?)
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“Today”? That post’s from 2005!
(Bloglines showed a whole bunch of old Google Blog posts as new today; I guess Google Reader did too, huh?)
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James: heheh! Yeah. Wonder what happened there?
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James: heheh! Yeah. Wonder what happened there?
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same here. i get a “new” google-entry every minute and it won’t stop. apparently googlereader likes the official google-blog very much 🙂
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same here. i get a “new” google-entry every minute and it won’t stop. apparently googlereader likes the official google-blog very much 🙂
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Failure = George Bush ?
No offense, but it made me snicker. ^^ I just heard about this.
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Failure = George Bush ?
No offense, but it made me snicker. ^^ I just heard about this.
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Failure in RSS? More likely a failure in WordPress, don’t you think? Or is that too complicated for you to grasp?
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Failure in RSS? More likely a failure in WordPress, don’t you think? Or is that too complicated for you to grasp?
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@5, no, I got the post as well and I don’t use wordpress
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@5, no, I got the post as well and I don’t use wordpress
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I just saw a post on the feed from Google blog announcing “We developed Davinci code puzzles”. It was from 2006
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I just saw a post on the feed from Google blog announcing “We developed Davinci code puzzles”. It was from 2006
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Ditto
I was surprised to see that the Google section of my Reader list had 60 something new posts.
I wonder what causes this… Error in Google Reader, or error in the blog itself?
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Ditto
I was surprised to see that the Google section of my Reader list had 60 something new posts.
I wonder what causes this… Error in Google Reader, or error in the blog itself?
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This is from 2005? One would never have noticed… same old same old.
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This is from 2005? One would never have noticed… same old same old.
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I had the same problem. In fact, last year, the same thing also happened. Very frustrating.
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I had the same problem. In fact, last year, the same thing also happened. Very frustrating.
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It’s an issue in Blogger; when they (or any other Blogger user) goes back to edit labels into old posts, their feed shows them up as ‘new’, very very annoying as a lot of older Blogger uesers tend to do that sort of thing fairly regularly.
another reason to convert to (and stay with) a better blogging platform.
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It’s an issue in Blogger; when they (or any other Blogger user) goes back to edit labels into old posts, their feed shows them up as ‘new’, very very annoying as a lot of older Blogger uesers tend to do that sort of thing fairly regularly.
another reason to convert to (and stay with) a better blogging platform.
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