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April-01 joke by Google

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on April 1, 2008
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Google wants to start civilization on Mars and come 2014, Google will be leading hundreds of users on one of the grandest adventures in human history: Project Virgle, the first permanent human colony on Mars.

Mars is an open source, open innovation planet, a leading economy with $36 trillion worth of dirt. The 100 year plan includes

  • Choosing a site
  • Low Earth Orbit
  • Virgle Base 1
  • Flying to Mars
  • Virgle City

Here’s a video to enjoy.

For those looking for the adventure of their life, you can learn more and sign up for the project right here http://www.google.com/virgle/pioneer.html

Happy Apr-01-2008



The Google Bomb, importance of anchor text

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on March 31, 2008
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Ok this is kind of old news, but I thought I would write a post on it anyways just so it’s documented on my blog.

I guess in 2003 or 2004, something in that era a bunch of webmasters decided to bomb Google with some humorous ammunition. They started linking to George Bush’s bio page on WhiteHouse.gov using the anchor text ‘miserable failure’.

In a matter of time, when you searched for miserable failure, Google started showing George Bush’s bio page which floated to the number #1 result for the term miserable failure.

Google said that it’s not going to hand tamper with results their search engine is showing, but to the best of my knowledge diffused the bomb with software patches.

Moral of the story is that anchor text plays a role in how search engines interpret websites. Links with descriptive anchor texts are more effective then links with just plain click here anchors.

Search engines may also validate anchor text with your actual site data.