Re: How'd They Do This?
- From: "TJ Hertz" <tjhertz@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2005 15:45:18 +0100
"Mike Rivers" <mrivers@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>
> Matt Ion wrote:
>
>> According to Google, "I'm Feeling Lucky" simply takes you straight to
>> the first found link. Nothing magical there.
>>
>> How Dubya's bio got to be the first hit is a whole different matter...
>
> I'm getting the sense (based on no research other than some rather
> brief responses in this newsgroup) that it may be keeping track of
> which link the user chooses first or which one is chosen most often
> when a list of links (not selecting the "lucky" option) is presented. I
> suspect that in this case, the word "failure" appears somewhere in the
> GWB link (I didn't check but it's a common enough word).
>
> The first search might have put that link way down near the bottom of
> the list, but you know how the word can get around on the Internet. If
> someone posts the instructions and tells the reader to go directly to
> the GWB link, the more people who do that, the closer the link gets to
> the top of the list. Given the unliklihood of people actually doing a
> search on the single word "failure" and getting something productive
> out of it, it probably doesn't take too many repeated operations to
> bring a particular link to the top of the list. And once it gets there,
> everyone who does what I posted to start the thread strengthens the
> link's position at the top.
>
> Then, when you "get lucky," there it is.
>
> I doubt that it's an Easter Egg. An egg is something that's planted by
> a programmer and appears when the user takes a specific action. I
> suppose a Google programmer might have forced this link as a default,
> but it's easier and safer to let the customers screw up the system.
>
Mike,
To simplify it drastically, Google organises its results based on how many
OTHER SITES link to the site in question with the search words (NOT how many
times the search words appear on the site in question). ie, if a link to
www.scrotum-productions.com is found on many other sites with the caption
"Scrotum are a fantastic local recording studio", then searching for
"fantastic local recording studio" might come up with
www.scrotum-productions.com, but including "fantastic local recording
studio" on the scrotum promotions site probably won't generate any hits.
That's how Google bombs work - a prankster gets as many people as possible
to link to, say, GWB's site, with the caption "total failure" - you know the
rest.
All "I'm Feeling Lucky" does is redirect you to the first link on the Google
results page. Nothing magical.
HTH
TJ
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