[WikiEN-l] Googlebombing by activists raising Wikipedia article ranking

[Robert Graham Merkel]

In the features section of the Jerusalem Post (http://www.jpost.com), 
there is a report about the efforts of a New York based activist who
is using Googlebombing (essentially, convincing others to set up links
in a particular manner) to change the search engine's top ranked answer
to the query term "Jew".  Apparently, at the time the article was 
written, it brings up a rather nasty anti-Semitic site, which this
individual is trying to replace with...a Wikipedia article (in terms 
of the top ranking on Google).  

Given the nature of the attention this could bring, I suspect
we should keep a particularly close eye on Judaism-related topics for
vandalism and partisan editing (of any kind) over the next few days.

If you want to read the article without registering at the Post, 
do a search on http://news.google.com for Wikipedia.


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