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I don't know if this has been passed around much, but I just
heard about it today:
-Go to Google and type in "failure"
-click "i'm feeling lucky"
i won't spoil the surprise. but once you see what comes up,
answer me this:
i've been asking a lot about how google and search engines
work, and i have a better idea than i used to. but this page does
not (at least nowhere i could find) contain the word "failure"
ANYWHERE. so how did they get it to come up first in the search?
It must be an inside conspiracy!!!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_bomb
also called 'link bombing' or blog bombing
the reason that page is ranked high for the word 'failure' is
that the page
is linked TO using the text failure from a couple thousand
blogs.

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