This post title may also get flagged as offensive by our friends at ScanSafe, depending on their level of purity (see my previous post)

I’ll take that risk…

Anyway, world-famous blackhat SEO, Stephen Colbert, has succeeded in getting ranked #1 for “giant brass balls” after asking viewers to link to him using that term.

Wasn’t Google’s anti-Googlebomb algo supposed to prevent this type of thing? Why didn’t it in this case? Was the”new Googlebomb algo” merely a hand-job?

He’s also #1 for “greatest living American“.

Matt Cutts on Googlebombs:

“Because these pranks are normally for phrases that are well off the beaten path, they haven’t been a very high priority for us. But over time, we’ve seen more people assume that they are Google’s opinion, or that Google has hand-coded the results for these Googlebombed queries. That’s not true, and it seemed like it was worth trying to correct that misperception. So a few of us who work here got together and came up with an algorithm that minimizes the impact of many Googlebombs“.

Tip: Inside Google