Search for this phrase: Worst band in the world in google and see what results you get.
The search results relate the phrase ‘Worst Band in the world’ to ‘Creed’ which is an American Band.

How was Creed linked with ‘Worst band in the world’?

Though it won several awards in 2001, the band ‘Creed’ failed to satisfy the over hyped expectation of it’s album in 2004, and broke up on the same year. Many people referred to Creed as worst band of the year (in 2004) and several Medias alleged for the brand’s poor sales (CNN ibn news). As many people linked “worst band in the world” with Creed, google search algorithm brought up Creed.com on top of the result for the search phrase “worst band in the world”.

This kind of media manipulation is said to be Google Bombing. Hope we all remember the famous google bomb “Miserable Failure” (searching for ‘Miserable Failure’ in google took us to white house home page!). Google has fixed several bombs including ‘Miserable Failure’.

But “Worst band in the world” bomb is not yet defused! It takes google a lot of challenge to come up with new ideas for their search algorithms !

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