Editing Google bombing (section)

==History==
Google bombs date back as far as 1999, when a search for "more [[evil]] than [[Satan]] himself" resulted in the [[Microsoft]] homepage as the top result.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.clickz.com/google-bombs-arent-so-scary/61942/|access-date=December 8, 2017|title=Google Bombs Aren't So Scary|first=Danny|last=Sullivan|date=March 18, 2002|work=ClickZ}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/incredible-google-bombs.html|title = The 10 Most Incredible Google Bombs|date = November 9, 2010}}</ref>

In September 2000 the first Google bomb with a verifiable creator was created by ''Hugedisk Men's Magazine'', a now-defunct online humor magazine, when it linked the text "dumb motherfucker" to a site selling [[George W. Bush]]-related merchandise.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,41401,00.html |last=Manjoo |first=Fahrad |title=Google Link is Bush League |date=January 25, 2001 |work=Wired News |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010405062025/http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0%2C1282%2C41401%2C00.html |archive-date=April 5, 2001 |access-date=January 26, 2007 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all }}</ref> Hugedisk had also unsuccessfully attempted to Google bomb an equally derogatory term to bring up an [[Al Gore]]-related site. After a fair amount of publicity the George W. Bush-related merchandise site retained lawyers and sent a [[cease and desist|cease-and-desist]] letter to ''Hugedisk'', thereby ending the Google bomb.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/01/earlier_today_m.html|title=Remembering the First Google Bomb|first=Michael|last=Calore|author2=Scott Gilbertson|date=January 26, 2001|work=Wired News|access-date=January 27, 2007 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070225081940/http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/01/earlier_today_m.html |archive-date = February 25, 2007}}</ref>

Adam Mathes is credited with coining the term "Google bombing" when he mentioned it in an April 6, 2001, article in the online magazine ''uber.nu''. In the article Mathes details his connection of the search term "talentless hack" to the website of his friend, Andy Pressman, by recruiting fellow webloggers to link to his friend's page with the desired term.<ref>{{cite web|first=Adam|last=Mathes|url=http://uber.nu/2001/04/06/|title=Filler Friday: Google Bombing|date=April 6, 2001|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050715083840/http://uber.nu/2001/04/06/|archive-date=July 15, 2005|df=mdy-all}}</ref> Some experts forecast that the practice of Google Bombing is over, as changes to Google's algorithm over the years have minimised the effect of the technique.