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I’ve always believed in a variation of Linus’s Law: Given enough eyeballs, all information bugs are shallow.
Clarence Fisher commented on something appalling that’s going on, in his post here. You can read the original comment by Tom Hoffman here.
So I’m going to do my bit as well. Here goes:
Martin Luther King Jr.
Popularity: 1% [?]
Posted in Four pillars .
– November 19, 2006
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[...] If you search for Martin Luther King on Google, you get a site against him as the first result. As an attempt to rid of this, a Googlebomb seems necessary. Thus, links to what probably should be up top. Martin Luther King Martin Luther King Martin Luther King Martin Luther King Martin Luther King Martin Luther King Martin Luther King Martin Luther King Martin Luther King I found this through The Obvious (Who found it through Confused of Calcutta), but check Tuttlle SVC for details. [...]
[...] Lots of bloggers are writing about how the top search result on Google for “Martin Luther King” is a site run by a racist white-supremacy group. Bloggers of the world unite – there’s nothing like a good, old-fashioned Google-bombing to clean this mess up! [...]
I believe that “Google-bombing for a good cause” is oxymoronic. This is probably because I subscribe to the principle that you do not fight fire with fire. All that does is burn up more stuff. Fortunately, it appears that Google is thinking along the same lines:
http://news.com.com/2061-10803_3-6153786.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-5&subj=news
I’m just not sure they are going to be able to solve a fundamental problem of judgment with better algorithms:
http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-Mff23hgidqmHGqbcv.lfskakEtS6qLVHUEMFUG4-?cq=1&p=159