Showbiz I would like to be emailed about offers, event and updates from Evening Standard. Read our privacy notice . It's likely that you have encountered a Google bomb online, even if you're not familiar with the phrase.
There used to be only a few, if any, of them on the internet, but now there are hundreds of them. Sometimes they are used to humiliate a well-known person. The term “liar” was used against Tony Blair in 2005 during a Google bombing operation that targeted Google.
co.uk . The bomb was a critique of Blair's military presence in Iraq and the hunt for weapons of mass destruction, and it was connected to an official biography of the UK prime minister at the time.
Another Google bomb attempted to associate Blair with the term “poodle” – a reference to the notion that he was US President George W Bush's lapdog. For example, when you typed Chuck Norris into Google, it used to return with, “Google won't search for Chuck Norris because it knows you don't find Chuck Norris, he finds you.” American singer and songwriter Chappell Roan has become the latest victim to the Google Easter egg .
But what happens when you type Chappell Roan into Google and what exactly is a Google bomb? Google will return the message, “Did you mean: your favourite artist 's favourite artist?” if you search for “Chappell Roan”. Likewise, when you search for “your favourite artist's favourite artist”, the same thing occurs in reverse. The phrase was hooked from a TikTok Ro.
