Google Bomb
An attempt to influence the ranking of a given site in results returned by Google search engine. Accomplished by linking many sites to the target site with ‘bomb’ keywords used as the link text. A notable Google bomb was: Google search for ‘miserable failure’. ‘Bomb’ refers to the effect of having massive amounts of links created for the sole purpose of increasing the rankings of a ‘target’ website for the bomb keywords. Slang: “We Google bombed George Bush’s web site with ‘miserable failure.’ ” Also known as Google wash.