On CNN yesterday there was a story where they claimed that the word “god” is almost as popular as the word sex when people search in the search engines. So I figured I’d have a shot at doing a bit of research on the search terms surrounding the word god.
Sex on the other hand is not much to research about. We all know this is one of the most searched for terms ever. So there is not much of a challenge in that one 
What I will do is build a few (well actually I believe I need a ton) of links to this particular blog post for the word god, and see what it takes to get it to the top of Google, Yahoo or Live.
Since Google returns more than 150 million results when searching for god, I will probably not get it to the top this year - or next year for that matter.
In another post I wrote about my personal believe - or the lack of believe in god so I will not talk so much about that here.
Update: I had to add a couple pictures regarding god and well.. a girl representing the other word.
What do you think, is it possible at all to rank for the word “god”?
Update: I just looked through the logs, and it looks like this post is starting to rank for the key phrase already 
I am now the happy holder of the first position when searching for “God Girl Sex Games” in Windows Live search Go ahead, try searching for the phrase God Girl Sex Games.
Published on January 27, 2007
in Google.
I’m reading a very interesting thread over at threadwatch.org regarding the latest announcement from Google about removal of the well known googlebombs namely “miserable failure” going against President George W. Bush and “liar” going against Great Britain’s Prime Minister Tony Blair.
To give a bit of background for new readers, a googlebomb is a technique used to make a sertain page rank for a search term that is not on a page. I could for exaple try to rank this page for the term “click here” without the text “click here” being on the page anywhere.
Try to do a search in Google for “click here” and you will see that the website of Adobe.com is on the first position in the search engine’s results pages (serp). This used to be the case for the “miserable failure” and “liar” as well.
When you search for these terms now, the sites of the President and the Prime Minister are no longer on the first places in the serps.
What does this mean then? As far as I can see, Google has by this change in policy actively entered the political landscape in a much stronger degree than before. By manually removing these terms they are making a political statement -and I am not to sure if I agree that they - as a publicly traded company, should actually make political statements like this.
It sends a very strong signal to the public: “Don’t try to make political statements through the serps that we don’t agree about. We will simply REMOVE your opinions”.
So there you have it folks. Googlebombs are no more.
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