Bombing Google
Sorry Guys, I haven’t been able to look at the news from Lebanon yet, I’ll do it right now and comment a bit later. I was busy bombing Google.
For those of you who still don’t know, we’re involved in an International Campaign to make a Google bomb for freeing Alaa, the Egyptian blogger who was seized by the Egyptian government. The idea is this: the more people who link the word “Egypt” with http://freealaa.blogspot.com , the more likely people who google the word “Egypt“, will be directed to our blog. The idea is to embarrass the Egyptian Government.
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Hello, my name is Mustapha and I blog in The Beirut Spring about Lebanese society and politics. I started in February 2005 after the killing of P.M. Rafik Hariri.
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It’s not that simple. Actually if the same word is repeated over and over again like “egypt, egypt..” then the google search will delist your page.
sounds logical. i think i read something like that before.
I might as well remove the repetition..
How about actually doing something useful, like trying to contact foreign governments and work them into pressuring the Egyptian gov’t.
Even if you are able to con google into flooding your site with egypt traffic, what makes you think their government will give a rat’s ass? This all sounds like an advertising scam.
Did you even think about how you are using Google’s service (blogger) to carry out this “masterplan”? Openly bragging about violating their terms and conditions is a very easy way to get your site shut down.
Google didn’t get to where it is today by allowing joe-schmo’s like you to play kid hackers whenever they thought it was cool.
My advice - stick to what you know.
Mustafa!
I like and appreciate all the efforts you (and others) are doing, writing to foreign governments and to the Egyptian one is a helpful thing for sure, but “spaming” google to “embarass” the Egyptian gov seems too irrational! Do you think they care about google search results? Hell no! and what if someone was looking for the word Egypt to find some info about the country and got re-directed (which will never happen with Google, trust me on that one), do you think that person will run to write a letter to the US government about Alaa?
Please accept my humble opinion and keep the PR work, the blog, the news, the links, but not such ways that will only hurt the case and give Google a great execuse to delist the entire page!
I work in the Internet medium and this is my experience!
Good luck!
Sorry for any typing mistakes; I’m in such a hurry))
“The idea is to embarrass the Egyptian Government.”
Good intentions aside, I don’t think there is anything that can embarass the Egyptian government.
Ramzi, I disagree.
The Egyptian government embarasses itself on a daily basiss. The point is that they just don’t seem to care.
The link to the page isnt working from here in jeddah, KSA, sometimes it tells me “invalid syntax error - the page cant b displayed” n some other times it will redirect me to some other pages.
btw some of your images are also blocked here.
The “egypt” links in your post point to an address that starts with “htt://” instead of “http://”.