I still haven’t been doing anything even remotely interesting recently (it rained a bit, we stayed in, we went to the pub, watched some football, you know the sort of predictably boring stuff), so in the absence of anything more interesting to talk about, just one last post on that whole googlebombing nonsense. I was just wondering if anybody can explain this: www.google.com/search?q=related:www.thebarnsbury.co.uk (Google’s results for a search on websites related to our favourite pub website–the results you get when you click on the “similar pages” link underneath a search result).
It’s a very odd list that seems to consist entirely of sites that are also linked from the sites that contained the original googlebomb. For example, I presume the “Kabalarian Philosophy” website appears in the related list because Angel linked to it close to the original entry containing her part of the bomb, but I don’t understand why. What’s the logic here, and how did it determine that only these links were related to the pub’s website, and not the others on the original pages containing the bomb? There’s clearly some kind of bizarre Googlebomb-related overspill effect going on here.
I think that’s all the mileage I’m going to get out of that one, though. Time for something new… In the meantime, later this week I will finally be off to spend some time in a field with some fine music (mudbath? At the time of writing BBC Weather says probably not, although let’s hope Tuesday isn’t as bad as it looks). Expect much excited bloggage on my return.