Could a political party manipulate Google for their benefit?

LD · 2009-03-02, 10:34 AM

There's quite a battle taking place since traditional propaganda networks are becoming less effective than the Internet and other communication technology.

As webmasters, we do what we can to get our sites to come up in SE. Imagine what a well financed political party might be able to do...?

I should probably be less paranoid...

tickler · 2009-03-02, 02:48 PM

It has already been done by some of the black hats before.

Google Bombing
"Miserable Failure" was forced to top of the google serps & pointed to Dubya's bio.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/bush/google.asp

ps. Maybe adult WMs, with out millions of pages should start doing some of our own GBs.

InfoGuy · 2009-03-02, 11:57 PM

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Originally Posted by tickler

ps. Maybe adult WMs, with out millions of pages should start doing some of our own GBs.

Adult WMs could link to pages like this as obscene.

SheepGuy · 2009-03-03, 12:52 AM

I used to fart around on wikipedia's political party sites. Change one word and it would change the whole tone of the article, and it would take the party weeks to notice

Amazing what a difference changing "several" to "several hundred" can do

SirMoby · 2009-03-03, 02:29 PM

I'm sure that they do.

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Originally Posted by LusciousDelight

traditional propaganda networks are becoming less effective than the Internet

I don't agree with this statement at all. I believe that the 2 largest propaganda networks in the history of the world based on money investment and the number of followers happen to be Fox News and Clear Channel Radio.

UPI has quite a long reach as well since it's picked up by so many news papers.

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2009-03-02, 02:48 PM	#2
tickler If there is nobody out there, that's a lot of real estate going to waste! Join Date: Dec 2003 Posts: 2,177	It has already been done by some of the black hats before. Google Bombing "Miserable Failure" was forced to top of the google serps & pointed to Dubya's bio. http://www.snopes.com/politics/bush/google.asp ps. Maybe adult WMs, with out millions of pages should start doing some of our own GBs. __________________ Latina Twins, Solo, NN, Hardcore Latin Teen Cash

2009-03-03, 12:52 AM	#4
SheepGuy It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Canada Posts: 2,527	I used to fart around on wikipedia's political party sites. Change one word and it would change the whole tone of the article, and it would take the party weeks to notice Amazing what a difference changing "several" to "several hundred" can do __________________ If the Environment was a bank, they would have saved it by now.