In the not-so-distant past, we’ve seen a hard-coded Bing Easter Egg declaring Google “more evil than Satan himself;” the Hiybbprqag honeypot drama, and Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer’s declaration that Google is just copying Bing.
Searching “more evil than Satan himself” displayed a hard-coded definition at the top of the SERP: =10^100 (a googol). Three geeky new Easter eggs from Google display the number of search results in the number format searched, as in the “binary...
Microsoft seems to believe revenge is best served cold; think way back to 1999, when a Google search for the term “more evil than satan” gave top ranking to the Microsoft homepage. As of Friday, that search query produced an “Easter egg” hardcoded...
This kind of bold branding is something Satan's own marketing agency would probably think up. The blog post, "Walmart Sends DMCA Notice to SearchAllDeals, TechCrunch" on Search Engine Watch's Blog was extremely interesting on several levels.
I think I may have overheard the conversation and it started something like this: "Hello Satan. There I was in Paris, only minutes away from the announcement that Eric Schmidt and Maurice Levy had a newly found friendship.
Others say Google is Satan. 'Some say Google is God,' Sergey Brin once said. The confusion about Google's identity may not be quite that Manichean, but it does run deep. Nicholas G. Carr, in strategy + business
THX isn't Satan's tool Last week's release of the Interactive Advertising Bureau/United Kingdom (IAB U.K.search marketing charter updated with affiliate guidelines moved search a bit closer to an official seat at the big kids' table.
Desktop Search tool, to deny it made Google explicitly more evil than Satan (see my past blog post on this) and to explain a new algorithm change has dropped Google from that query on evilness. If you thought the Yahoo Search Blog was edgy (I have...
The Return Of More Evil Than Satan. So, what do you think of the new MSN Search (beta)? Microsoft To Launch New Search Engine Webmaster World Most search engine optimizers will be fascinated by the ability to play with sliders and try to reverse...
A search for more evil than satan found Microsoft's home page as number one in Google. In fair turnabout, a search for more evil than satan there find Google as number one. For the record, more evil at satan at Yahoo doesn't bring up either...
So here's the deal -- a post on Memepool back in October noted that if you searched for "more evil than satan himself" on Google, the Microsoft home page was listed first. That position hasn't changed," I'm assured by a Google contact.
Others say Google is Satan. Is Google God? When will the company finally go public? Search Engine Watch editor Danny Sullivan poses these and other questions to Google co-founder Sergey Brin. A special report from the Search Engine Strategies...
Does God rank higher than Satan? A new site puts a spin on the "am I hot or not" craze, by using Google to assess the relative popularity of opposite or 'competing' search terms. Who on the web is more popular -- George W.
Bush, as well as Liv Tyler and how Microsoft in the past was rated "more evil than Satan" by Google. By Danny Sullivan, Editor The Search Engine Update, Oct. Google rolled out its latest index at the very end of last month, and changes to its...
The classic Google Bomb, if we're going to use that word, was way back at the end of 1999, when it was discovered that a search for "more evil than satan himself" brought up the Microsoft web site. The classic Google blip, that put Bill Gates on...
The classic Google Bomb, if we're going to use that word, was way back at the end of 1999, when it was discovered that a search for "more evil than satan himself" brought up the Microsoft web site. The classic Google blip, that put Bill Gates on...
The classic Google blip, that put Bill Gates on par with Satan. Now that the story has appeared in several other places, well -- what the heck. It turns out that for the past three months, if you did a search on Google for a particularly insulting...
Perhaps Google-blips are an annual thing, because a year ago, the now-notorious "more evil than satan" query eclipsed sex as a top search on Google. By Danny Sullivan From The Search Engine Report Nov.
If Microsoft is "more evil than satan," then who would Google say is more evil than the arch enemy of Austin Powers, Dr. So here's the deal -- a post on Memepool back in October noted that if you searched for "more evil than satan himself" on...
So here's the deal -- a post on Memepool back in October noted that if you searched for "more evil than satan himself" on Google, the Microsoft home page was listed first. If Microsoft is "more evil than satan," then who would Google say is more...
