News. Technology. Ramblings.

During the media conference in Nashville, one of the sessions I attended was by David Hudson, who is a Research Attorney at First Amendment Center and a contributing editor for American Bar’s Association’s Preview of United States Supreme Court cases.

One of the issues that was discussed in the lecture was, the speed that legal infrastructure can follow to define clauses for the fast changing modes of abuse in new media.

One of such abuse is known as Link/ Google Bombing.

An example of Google Bombs was back in  late 2006, anyone who searched for words “miserable failure” in Google, got first link as the profile of President George Bush.

In the end of January, 2007 though, Google announced that they had overcome it  “by improving our analysis of the link structure of the Web”.

However, Stephen Colbert, at times led chaos at Wikipedia  , is being indexed as Greatest Living American.

The interesting part is, it was done using Google Bombs, which Google said have been overcome.