The random political thoughts thread (Part Deux)

[Betty]

Originally Posted by Alex

But still, if the image reached the top organically then it should be left there. Google's algorithms are designed to figure out what people searching actually want and apparently (if it was organic) people want a racist image of Michelle Obama.

Google bombs only require a large group of people acting together. Take any image, give it a name that doesn't apply, have enough people link to it using that name, and it will rise to the top of the results.

It would require a greater number of people linking to a photo of her with the correct name to overcome that.

I doubt there is a group of people working to link to nice image her that is greater than those working to push the inappropriate photo.

I would usually agree to let Google stay out of the organic manipulation and just let things happen but in this case, I'm not so sure.