The Catholic Church = Pedophile Site?

[TheOtherSide (imported)]

I admit, I'm kinda suprised that nobody's posted anything about this news story. I found it completely hilarioius, even if it is a little too 'on the nose'.

Google Search for Vatican Returns Pedophile Site (http://gizmodo.com/5590835/google-searc ... phile-site)

If you used Google to search for the word "Vatican" this weekend, you probably were surprised that the first result was not "vatican.va" but a pedophile site called "pedofilo.com." Well, maybe you weren't that surprised, unlike Google.

Google Italy spokeswoman Simona Panseri says that they don't really know what happened:

I cannot confirm if it is an attack because I have not had any more precise information from the US engineers to understand the nature of the problem.

The glitch was fixed shorty after it was discovered. [AFP]

[Riverwind (imported)]

No I missed it, thanks I needed that.

River

[Dave (imported)]

It's called a "google Bomb"...

There is a way to manipulate the Google listings for searches. Don't ask me. I don't know how.

You'll see it happen more near the elections. Political hacks do it all the time.

[Riverwind (imported)]

It requires you to build your bomb then call it what you want to look up then put in a program that will search it out several million times over the course of a day. It will pop it to the top as the most popular response to the search.

River