John Battelle's Blog - WTF!

There is a post on this blog that really caught my eye. it is about how John Battelle, a blog owner on the topics of "Thoughts on the intersection of search, media, technology, and more" is the first John that appears on Google when you type "john" into the search bar. This is crazy! Think of how many important Johns there have been!!! John Lennon, JFK, The Pope and even the legendary John Candy (pure legend because of cool runnings!).

But this made me think that if this can happen then Google can be manipulated by multinational companies very easily. All it takes is enough clicks from people and boom you’re the first person up there. In our class we are trying to do this by using the word VQUZESHUF, which was unknown to Google and seeing how we can spread this word around the internet. In 2 weeks we are up to 111 results. Not bad for a class of 25. But this brings me back to my point of that multinational companies could employ someone to simply work Google so that their company is the first one to pop up. Who knows if this is what happens or not! Anyway thought it was a pretty cool post to read.