Mexican Claims Responsibility for Cyber Attack Against Vatican on Google

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CNA STAFF, Jul 21, 2010 / 01:12 pm (CNA).- A Mexican man is claiming responsibility for the cyber attack that made Google direct any search using the word “vaticano” to the website pedofilo.com.

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Just as we suspected, it was a Google bomb and not a hack. Google’s going to have to tighten up it’s algorithms again.
 
curlycool89 said:
Just as we suspected, it was a Google bomb and not a hack. Google’s going to have to tighten up it’s algorithms again.
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Isn’t a Google bomb a form of a hack? I am not sure. I did go to college for computer networking but I did not graduate and I am not aware of all of the various forms of hacking.
 
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Isn’t a Google bomb a form of a hack? I am not sure. I did go to college for computer networking but I did not graduate and I am not aware of all of the various forms of hacking.
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Not really hacking. Google’s search works where the top result is top because of all the pages that are linking to it with a certain context. That’s why Wikipedia articles always seem to be first, because a lot of other Wikipedia articles link to each other. So if a lot of people linked the word Catholic to some anti-Catholic site, a search for “catholic” would give you that site as the first result.

I think the way it’s usually accomplished is through forms and signatures, because a signature goes on every post (so there’s no actual work you have to do, you just post like usual and Google picks it up as an association). So let’s say CAF wanted to google bomb the word “seventh day adventist”. What we’d do is everyone on the forum would put the words “seventh day adventist” in their signature with the words linking to say CA’s tract on seventh day adventism. If everyone did that across a little bit of the internet (forums, blogs, whatever), then eventually Google picks that up and all the sudden a google search for “seventh day adventism” takes you to the CA tract instead of say the official website.

Speaking of Wikipedia, they have an article on it.
 
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