# Google is my god **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 23, 2005, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-is-my-god/327548 "2005-10-23T18:50:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2005, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-is-my-god/327548/1 "2005-10-23T18:50:26Z")
Type in the word “failure” and click “I’m feeling lucky”. All hail Google. ---
**Author:** ![Giant\_Spongess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/94ad74/32.png) [@Giant\_Spongess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giant_Spongess)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2005, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-is-my-god/327548/2 "2005-10-23T19:07:35Z")
Under the sponsored links we get: “These results may seem politically slanted.” ---
**Author:** ![Giant\_Spongess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/94ad74/32.png) [@Giant\_Spongess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giant_Spongess)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2005, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-is-my-god/327548/3 "2005-10-23T19:09:12Z")
Oh, and that’s really, really old by the way. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2005, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-is-my-god/327548/4 "2005-10-23T19:34:34Z")
> [@Giant\_Spongess](#): > > Oh, and that’s really, really old by the way. We’re substantially behind the times up here. ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2005, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-is-my-god/327548/5 "2005-10-23T19:47:27Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > We’re substantially behind the times up here. Hey! You get all those checks for the oil. What else do you have to do with the time you loafers get? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Absolute](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b2d939/32.png) [@Absolute](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Absolute)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2005, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-is-my-god/327548/6 "2005-10-23T20:06:10Z")
It’s called a “Google bomb”. > **[Google bombing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Googlebomb)** > > The terms Google bombing and Googlewashing refer to the practice of causing a website to rank highly in web search engine results for irrelevant, unrelated or off-topic search terms by linking heavily. In contrast, search engine optimization (SEO) is the practice of improving the search engine listings of web pages for relevant search terms. > Google-bombing is done for either business, political, or comedic purposes (or some combination thereof). Google's search-rank algorithm ranks pages highe... ---
**Author:** ![kaiwik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaiwik/32/3978_2.png) [@kaiwik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaiwik)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2005, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-is-my-god/327548/7 "2005-10-23T20:13:54Z")
> [@samclem](#): > > Hey! You get all those checks for the oil. What else do you have to do with the time you loafers get? 🙂 Chop wood, shovel snow, catch/kill fish/meat and turn it into meals, wrestle bears, find ice worms for our cocktails, hang out on the marge around the bonfire, oh, and spend that PFD on fuel oil to keep warm!!! ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2005, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-is-my-god/327548/8 "2005-10-23T20:31:05Z")
> [@kaiwik](#): > > Chop wood, shovel snow, catch/kill fish/meat and turn it into meals, wrestle bears, find ice worms for our cocktails, hang out on the marge around the bonfire, oh, and spend that PFD on fuel oil to keep warm!!! Nah, I live in a condo, shop at Safeway, wrestle with the Ms occasionally, am lucky to find my worm, and donated my PFD to the Anchorage Museum this year. A sad remnant of the man I useter be. ---
**Author:** ![kaiwik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaiwik/32/3978_2.png) [@kaiwik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaiwik)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2005, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-is-my-god/327548/9 "2005-10-23T20:38:03Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Nah, I live in a condo, shop at Safeway, wrestle with the Ms occasionally, am lucky to find my worm, and donated my PFD to the Anchorage Museum this year. A sad remnant of the man I useter be. Hush, man, you’ll fill the state with cheechakos talkin’ like that!!! ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2005, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-is-my-god/327548/10 "2005-10-23T21:28:56Z")
> [@kaiwik](#): > > Hush, man, you’ll fill the state with cheechakos talkin’ like that!!! TOO LATE! ---
**Author:** ![kaiwik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaiwik/32/3978_2.png) [@kaiwik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaiwik)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2005, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-is-my-god/327548/11 "2005-10-23T21:41:33Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > TOO LATE! hehehe…I have never heard as many southern accents as I do here! On the island the transients have mostly flown south, but there are an awful lot of unemployed crab fishermen milling about. ---
**Author:** ![CynicalGabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@CynicalGabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CynicalGabe)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2005, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-is-my-god/327548/12 "2005-10-23T22:11:15Z")
Look out! Its a 2000’s Style Google Bomb! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2005, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-is-my-god/327548/13 "2005-10-23T22:39:56Z")
I don’t care if it is old. I love it. Thank you for sharing. I came close to choking on my gum. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2005, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-is-my-god/327548/14 "2005-10-23T22:58:39Z")
Hmm, Googlebomb. Learn something new every day.