Google bomb

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noun

an effort to move a website to the top of search-engine results for a particular word or phrase, by creating a large number of links that contain this search text.

verb (used without object)

to engage in such an effort.

verb (used with object)

to make (a website, person, word, or phrase) a target of a Google bomb: His biography on the Web was Google-bombed with the search word “liar.”

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Also Google-bomb (for defs. 2, 3) .

Origin of Google bomb

2000–05; Google (brand name of search engine) + bomb

OTHER WORDS FROM Google bomb

Google bomber, noun

Words nearby Google bomb

goofus, goofy, goofy-footer, goog, Google, Google bomb, google-bombing, Google Glass, googlewhack, googly, googly-eyed

How to use Google bomb in a sentence

Policemen on the show joke about prison riots, bomb threats, and the shooting of unarmed civilians.
'Babylon' Review: The Dumb Lives of Trigger-Happy Cops|Melissa Leon|January 9, 2015|DAILY BEAST
But I think Steve Austin has to team up with a Japanese holdout to stop a nuclear bomb from going off or something.
‘Archer’ Creator Adam Reed Spills Season 6 Secrets, From Surreal Plotlines to Life Post-ISIS|Marlow Stern|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST
In the middle of all of that past suffering and present-day conflict, this Cosby bomb was dropped.
Phylicia Rashad and the Cult of Cosby Truthers|Stereo Williams|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST
But the ads are not just intended to remind the Google-curious that Paul exists and is thinking about running for president.
Rand Paul’s Passive-Aggressive Trolling Campaign|Olivia Nuzzi|January 6, 2015|DAILY BEAST

Even a relatively small 250-pound bomb could kill or injure friendly troops who are within 650 feet of the explosion.
New U.S. Stealth Jet Can’t Fire Its Gun Until 2019|Dave Majumdar|December 31, 2014|DAILY BEAST
More like bomb-shells, military mines, torpedoes, and nitroglycerine trains.
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce|E. R. Billings.
The trench mortars—bomb guns they call them—will be ready in Japan in two and a half months' time.
Gallipoli Diary, Volume I|Ian Hamilton
That boy shows old Rachels blood, soliloquized the mistress of Wavertree Hall; he would not run if there were a bomb under him!
Those Dale Girls|Frank Weston Carruth
Villeroi's reply was to commence the bombardment at once, and forthwith bomb-shells and red-hot shot came pouring on the town.
Belgium|George W. T. (George William Thomson) Omond
For instance, the Master Cook has a party of bomb-throwers formed from among the cooks.
Letters of Lt.-Col. George Brenton Laurie|George Brenton Laurie