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Stephen Colbert has made a career out of yanking people’s chains and being brilliant at it.
He reigned chaos over at Wikipedia when he urged his viewers to edit articles with knowingly false content calling it, “wikiality,” the reality that exists if you make something up and enough people agree with you - it becomes reality. That got him banned from Wikipedia.
After that he challenged his viewers to flood an online poll on a website that was entirely in Hungarian that was holding a contest to name a new bridge that was being built. He won, and when the bridge is finished in 2008 it will officially be named “The Stephen Colbert Bridge“.
Now he’s dropped a Google bomb. Earlier this week, Colbert announced on The Colbert Report, that he wanted to rank first on Google’s search results for the phrase “giant brass balls.” The Colbert Nation of bloggers went one step further and put him at the top of Google’s hierarchy for the phrase “Greatest Living American.”
We wonder how long before Google has to change its algorithm to combat the Colbert effect?
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1. DB Ferguson
2. charlie
3. James
Want a neat little picture by your comments? Get one here.Thanks for the plug! I thought I’d go ahead and clear up a small factual error in your post. The Googlebomb wasn’t mentioned on the show - it was discussed in a pre-show Q&A, off camera. The story behind the Googlebomb call can be found here:
http://www.alchemistmedia.com/blog/stephen-colbert-greatest-american
“In between sessions and networking events, we got a chance to see a taping of The Colbert Report hosted by Stephen Colbert, a true american hero. During the Q&A period before the show, Stephen said he would like to rank first on Google for Giant Brass Balls. Well—that just seemed way too easy, so we decided to do some keyword research and find other words that the show could rank for…
A quick check on Google shows he doesn’t even rank for Truthiness, a word he invented. So, Colbert Nation, we are not -ahem- suggesting a Google Bombing campaign… but isn’t it time to start linking to the Greatest Living American?”
Posted Friday, April 20, 2007 at 11:43 am | Permalink
anyone catch his metaphor-off with sean penn? it was hilarious.
Posted Monday, April 23, 2007 at 11:26 am | Permalink
the meta-free-phor-all - I saw it on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXvLQd3JJLo
Posted Monday, April 23, 2007 at 11:42 am | Permalink
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