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==Other search engines== Other search engines use similar techniques to rank results and are also affected by Google bombs. A search for "[[miserable failure]]" or "failure" on September 29, 2006, brought up the official George W. Bush biography number one on [[Google]], [[Yahoo!]], and [[MSN]] and number two on Ask.com. On June 2, 2005, Tooter reported that George Bush was ranked first for the keyword "miserable", "failure", and "miserable failure" in both Google and Yahoo!; Google has since addressed this and disarmed the George Bush Google bomb and many others.{{Citation needed|date=December 2022}} The [[BBC]], reporting on Google bombs in 2002, used the headline "Google Hit By Link Bombers",<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/1868395.stm|title=Google Hit By Link Bombers|publisher=BBC |date=March 13, 2002}}</ref> acknowledging to some degree the idea of "link bombing". In 2004, [[Search Engine Watch]] suggested that the term be "link bombing" because of its application beyond Google, and continues to use that [[technical term|term]] as it is considered more accurate.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://yooter.com/blog/index.php?entry=entry050602-180255 |title=Yooter SEO blog |publisher=Yooter.com |access-date=July 9, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090513202317/http://www.yooter.com/blog/index.php?entry=entry050602-180255 |archive-date=May 13, 2009 |df=mdy-all }}</ref> {{blockquote|We don't condone the practice of googlebombing, or any other action that seeks to affect the integrity of our search results, but we're also reluctant to alter our results by hand in order to prevent such items from showing up. Pranks like this may be distracting to some, but they don't affect the overall quality of our search service, whose objectivity, as always, remains the core of our mission.<ref>{{cite web|last=Mayer |first=Marissa |url=http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/09/googlebombing-failure.html |title=Official Google Blog: Googlebombing 'failure' |publisher=Googleblog.blogspot.com |date=September 16, 2005 |access-date=July 9, 2010}}</ref>}} By January 2007, Google changed its indexing structure<ref name="googlebomb halt"/> so that Google bombs such as "miserable failure" would "typically return commentary, discussions, and articles" about the tactic itself.<ref name="googlebomb halt"/> Google announced the changes on its official blog. In response to criticism for allowing the Google bombs, [[Matt Cutts]], head of Google's Webspam team, said that Google bombs had not "been a very high priority for us".<ref name="googlebomb halt">{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/29/technology/29google.html | work=The New York Times | title=Google Halts 'Miserable Failure' Link to President Bush | first=Noam | last=Cohen | date=January 29, 2007 | access-date=May 3, 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.snopes.com/politics/bush/google.asp |title=Urban Legends Reference Pages: Miserable Failure |website=Snopes.com |date=December 9, 2003 |access-date=July 9, 2010}}</ref> {{blockquote|Over time, weβve seen more people assume that they are Google's opinion, or that Google has hand-coded the results for these Google-bombed queries. That's not true, and it seemed like it was worth trying to correct that misperception.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2007/01/quick-word-about-googlebombs.html |title=Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: A quick word about Googlebombs |publisher=Googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com |date=January 25, 2007 |access-date=July 9, 2010}}</ref>}}
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