Source: http://radgeek.com/gt/2005/02/01/bombing_for/
Timestamp: 2019-04-23 06:20:12+00:00

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We did it before, and we can do it again.
While doing a bit of Googling for a citation of the decision in Roe v. Wade, I was reminded of a rather unpleasant fact: anti-abortion nuts have, up to this point, done a pretty good job at getting their agitprop ranked above factual information about Roe v. Wade and abortion in web searches. (On a related topic, see Crisis Pregnancy Centers Move Online.) As of 1 February 2005, the top search result for “Roe v. Wade” on Google (the one you’ll get from “I Feel Lucky”) is not the text of the case; it’s an anti-choice advocacy site called RoevWade-dot-org (I won’t link it here, lest it throw off the Google Bombing) — a one-stop shop for anti-abortion myths such as Post-Abortion Syndrome, the abortion-breast cancer link, and more, along with a heaping helping of wit and wisdom from everyone from Feminists for Life to Dr. James Dobson. You can find similar wingnut sites at the top of many other abortion-related Google searches.
Therefore, I propose that we do something about it. Specifically, I suggest we start throwing bombs.
Go to your webpage, weblog, LiveJournal, or anything else that Google can see. If you don’t have one, get one. Just sprinkle it with a bit of personal information (or put up that huge site you�ve always dreamed of), and remember to add the Google bombing code somewhere on your page (see below).
The more pages on your site you include these snippets on, and the more frequently you update your site while the HTML snippet is present on it, the better the results.
If you want to be extra helpful, you can help spread the idea further: provide a link back to this page to explain what you’re doing, or provide your own explanation of what the GoogleBomb is and how people can get involved.
Add your site to Google, if you haven’t already.
And from there, watch the magic of precision GoogleBombing do its work!
Once you’ve joined in the bombing campaign, let me know about it (by e-mail or by TrackBack), and I’ll be glad to give you a shout-out in a later update on the campaign.
P.S. This is not a meme. Please don’t call it one. Thank you.
Update 2005-02-02: I made a mistake in the cut-and-paste option below: I accidentally used a relative URI when I should have used an absolute one; this means that if you cut-and-pasted from this page before this notice went up you’ll have a broken link. You can fix it by getting the new cut-and-paste below and replacing the old one with it.
In your code, I think the “Join me in Bombing for Choice” link has a problem. Shouldn’t the URL be http://www.radgeek.com/gt/2005/02/01/bombing_for ? The radgeek.com is left out of the code. I’ve seen a few sites that just copy/pasted without looking at it so it’s turning up 404s for them.
what an eager young programmer type guy like yourslef should do is build a googlebombing sidebar service for bloggers. something akin to blogrolling, except you select from a bunch of pre-submitted bombs.
or maybe that’s just a bad idea….
Obligatory disclaimer: I am not Ms. Lauren, nor was meant to be; I am Charles Johnson, guest blogging on Ms. Lauren’s behalf while she takes a much-deserved break. You can normally find me at Rad Geek People’s Daily.
In your code, I think the Join me in Bombing for Choice link has a problem. Shouldn’t the URL be ?
Yep! My bad. When I’m writing here I normally use relative URIs to link within the site. Being a creature of habit, I forgot to stop writing them that way when I was writing HTML to go on other people’s sites. D’oh.
Anyway, it’s been fixed now. I’m e-mailing folks who I know got the wrong code; if you see anyone’s page with a broken link back, just e-mail them a note about the fix.
This is not a meme. This is infowar.
Radgeek is calling out for people to make sure that Google accurately reflect the most informative pages on searches for Roe vs Wade. Anti-abortion ideologues beware: I’m promoting objective, factual information on: Roe v. Wade and abortion. You can too.
Googlebombing for objactive, factual information on abortion.
No one likes abortion…there is no culture of death…unless you’re talking about U.S. foreign policy. This is meant to increase the odds that factual information will rank higher than crap sites.
Via Philobiblon, I found Rad Geek has created a google bomb to promote accurate information to be displayed at the top on a google search.
Bombing for Choice: Geekery Today 2005/02/01 :: Rad Geek People’s Daily Anti-abortion ideologues beware: I’m promoting objective, factual information on: Roe v. Wade abortion You can too. Join me in Bombing for Choice….
It’s time to play dirty: Anti-abortion ideologues beware: I’m promoting objective, factual information on: Roe v. Wade abortion You can too. Join me in Bombing for Choice….
Since your bombing for choice campaign started because anti-choice roevwade.org was the first google result .. I thought you’d be intereted to know that roevwade.org has apparently been cybersquatted by a poker business.
They also have the rigt to tell what they think ahbout abortion…and it’s their business. We have democracy in the world. I hope.
Join me in the Bombing?
Since when do Anarchists lobby for federal laws?
Since when do Anarchists defend state abortion laws?
The correct answer is that they do neither. The purpose of this GoogleBomb, back when it was launched, was not to lobby for federal laws. It was to promote factual information about abortion, and the relevant Supreme Court rulings, at a time when the top search results provided not accurate information, but rather deceptive anti-choice polemics.
As for my position on Roe, specifically, I’ve said a bit about it in comments on my International Women’s Day post and more recently in my reply to David Gordon. If you have any worries about the position as expressed, those threads would probably be a better place to raise them.
Anticopyright. This was written in 2005 by Rad Geek. Feel free to reprint if you like it. This machine kills intellectual monopolists.
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