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- diggsuze, on 10/12/2007, -14/+69Great American or "The Greatest" American? No doubt about it — Colbert is the Greatest Living American! The brass balls are the least of it...
- ryanmm, on 10/12/2007, -6/+42Colbert's greatness comes from the fact that he knows his fanbase is tech savvy and he uses it to his advantage...what a legend
- Agret, on 10/12/2007, -2/+33@MSTK
What do you mean "the site in my sig", there are no sigs on digg.... - northjersey78, on 10/12/2007, -6/+31That new ice cream flavor named after looks pretty tasty.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+27I work for Google. I can vouch... we all already think he's the greatest living American. :)
- crashflow, on 10/12/2007, -1/+23http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=greatest+living+American&btnG=Search
No sign of him yet. - darkslide29, on 10/12/2007, -2/+22let's not forget the bridge in Hungary that was voted to be in his name.
- CatalystDM, on 10/12/2007, -2/+18"Will he be able to shakeup Google like he did with the Wikipedia?"
Maybe if he mentions it on the actual show, but he won't shake things up just by asking the studio audience to do something. - AladinSane, on 10/12/2007, -4/+16The reason your vandalism of your high school alumni list hasn't been corrected is that nobody cares. It's such a vague, narrow entry that it'd be pointless to try and "correct" it. You, however, need a girlfriend.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+15Take off every sig!
- ajgv, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13throw some quotes around that and hes #4
- LiveFastDieOld, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10This isn't necessarily a Googlebomb. It's not as if Google no longer pays attention to what words people use in their links; it's still a huge part of the algorithm.
If everyone links to Colbert as the greatest living American AND Colbert's site itself talks about him being the greatest living American, it won't be long before he's at the top. It won't even be that tough; the top hit for 'greatest living american' right now (at least, as of this moment, from this location) doesn't even use that specific phrase. - Insignian, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10I can't find it anywhere
- psxman, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10*That*'s what people at Google dream about? Being unemployed and living in their parent's basement?
- spookyttws, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9You seem to be missing the entire point of the character he portrays. Yes, he does break character, but that makes it all the better. And this 'contempt' for Jon Stewart (and his full name is actually spelled Jonathan) you speak of...well I'll just leave it at this: Stewart is the Executive Producer of the Colbert Report.
- penumbra, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7*rofl* Best... stupid... case... of... mispunctuation... ever.
Worst... use... of... superfluous... ellipses... ever... maybe. - pingveno, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7"Colbert’s suggestions to change Wikipedia listings have driven Wikipedia editors to the edge of a nervous breakdown."
Wikipedia's editors didn't get even close to a "nervous breakdown." There were already procedures in place to take care of mass vandalism, all that had to happen was for an admin watching the show to realize what would happen and lock the page. That, of course, is exactly what happened. - mellenger, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9Stephen Colbert is the greatest living American
- gameforge, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I can't help but think that Google might notice it before their spider does. What I think will happen:
1) Google plays nice and simply lowers the rank associating his name with "greatest living american" for relevant searches
2) Google gets pissed and ensures that his name is nowhere to be found given the keywords "greatest", "living", or "american"
3) It's Google's new Celebrity AdSense (Beta) and he is trading sponsors for Google plugs on his show or possibly hard cash, and Google will cooperate with the schedule that the show's writers have put together for how and when the terms get indexed, eventually reverting to the normal indexing when the bit is over
It should be pretty obvious in the next week or two what their reaction is/will be. I *really* doubt that they're going to sit back and do absolutely nothing while some TV personality demonstrates his ability to manipulate their product. Google's goal is to organize the world's information, and categorizing Stephen Colbert as the greatest living American via himself is probably not what they had in mind. Maybe if they are already fans and like the free publicity, and no important shareholders/customers start having a cow.
I find it quite interesting that a private party used GoDaddy to register the domain greatestlivingamerican.com six months ago (almost to the day), and if you go there now ( http://www.greatestlivingamerican.com/ ) you get a broken image embedded in some bad HTML code, which seems to be trying to redirect to a GoDaddy ad... seems interesting that it's just sittin' there, broken... anyway, it's #2 in a quoted Google search for "greatest living american", with the first reference to Colbert @ #4, at least on my Google - that entry @ #4 is #1 on Google News, so that might disappear in a few days. But #2 is pretty good for a blank page with no text whatsoever on it - I assume that domain names have a lot of precedence in the form of keywords in Google's spider (particularly with an exact phrase like that), so that could be tough to beat. Or, perhaps that page just recently changed?
If he were REAL clever, he'd buy the domain and make it his blog. - killerofkiller, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8http://www.google.com/search?q=greatest+living+American&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
number 8 down names colbert - Scratchula, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Greatest American Asshat.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5He'll be #1 by the end of this week. Colbert is adored by 18-35 year-olds.
- pingveno, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5There's a real time IRC feed of all of the changes that are made to Wikipedia, so usually vandalism, even to obscure articles, gets caught. However, obviously not everything does.
- Downwritemad, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Stephen stands for all things credible. He just wanted to make sure they maintain their constant struggle for Truthiness.
- gameforge, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Don't you know anything about yourself? Your father (a truly spectacular human being, if you can even call him that) is the greatest living American!
You have to understand, Chuck Norris is more powerful than Google is. When Chuck Norris looks for stuff on the Internet, he just sucks the page he's looking for right out of the tubes. He'll beat any Google result by at least 0.10s. And if the page isn't found, he goes in after it - he crawls right into the tubes and stares the server down until, out of pure terror, it releases the coward-ass web page.
How can you say George W. is the greatest living American? Let me put it this way... Chuck Norris doesn't have a cache of nuclear George W.'s pointed at Iran, it's the other way around! In fact, one nuclear roundhouse kick can level a city of 10 million.
Chuck Norris is the greatest American period... you should really spend more time with your family...
...yeah okay, sorry for all the bad Chuck Norris jokes. But hey, at least I thought of them myself :) - 2legit2kwit, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Steven Colbert is exactly what Andy Kauffman tried to be in the seventies. He is one big practical joke on the American media and The American people, i just love it!
- jayswain, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4It will be totally ***** awesome if he ranks #1 for greatest living american, all he needs is a link from CC and some title tag's and he's golden.
- jimic79, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4That would make him a good actor, wouldn't it? In his interviews he clearly states that Colbert is a "character" (he pronounces it Coal-Bear when he talks about said "character") He also acts as a staunch republican when all signs point to his being quite the opposite... Don't get all fired up. Just be happy that the people that watch the daily show and the colbert report (myself included) are getting some up-to-date news.... It is a rather credible, albeit lefty-biased news source...
- TheGeneral, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Doesn't Sanjaya already have this distinction?
- Salviati, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Judging by the current results for "Greatest Living American" in Google, it won't take long for him to reach the top. It may take a few days before Google's crawler picks up on the new trend, though.
- kahlessreborn, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6Digg Killed Colbert. YOU BASTARDS!
- diggn_it, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5yeah totally. Ice cream is not complete without bananas in my opinion.
- dnthomps, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Signs of success! Colbert related page link #4.
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Greatest+Living+American%22&complete=1&hl=en - ajgv, on 10/12/2007, -6/+8it can be... i added some of my friends to my highschool's entry under the notable alumni section. still there 6 months later.
- WileEPeyote, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I was just thinking yesterday about all the mayhem someone like Any Kaufman could come up with in this day and age. This would be a mild stunt compared to some of the stuff I imagine him doing. We miss you Andy, please come back...
- krebcycle, on 10/12/2007, -5/+7If Colbert is great it is only marginally related to his ability to get nerds to wump internets.
- Arizona_Glover, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5http://paulsbaker.blogspot.com/2007/04/greatest-living-american.html
- inhaler, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I think you're lost on the disambiguation of Stephen Colbert the actor, and the character.
You guys above just beat me to it! - DroidBlender, on 09/18/2008, -1/+3@Insignian
You sure? You should check out any near 7 Elevens and Ralph's/RiteAid/Jones, they're starting to pop up all over the place. Good luck on finding it, it's really good! - srusso, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I hope Google just removes the search of his name.... Then we can see who would "win the war"
- Peanutman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2The Ben & Jerry's website will tell you where a specific flavor is sold after you enter your zip code.
- mjsteinbaugh, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I've only been able to find the pints at Ben & Jerry's scoop shops.
- gameforge, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@aladinsane
You just proved the point. Wikipedia's policing doesn't work. It works on popular stuff and obvious stuff, or both (i.e. talk show hosts announcing their wiki vandalism plans on cable TV, adding the White House Press Secretary's name under the entry for "Douche", etc.).
As for the live IRC feed, how many people do they have fixed on that 24/7? Do they watch it in every language or just English? And honestly, short of seeing a swear word, or a ten page article turn into a one line "gotcha", or some massive flood of traffic, I really don't know how they'd notice. Unless they're an expert on everything and know whenever they're witnessing intentional misinformation... in which case, why don't they just write all the articles? - gameforge, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@v3x3d
> ...someone registered the same day...
$ whois greatestlivingamerican.com
...
Updated Date: 17-nov-2006
Creation Date: 17-nov-2006
Expiration Date: 17-nov-2007
...
It was created about six months ago. It hasn't been updated since. That domaintools page you listed says so as well. - iblaine, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Google bombs no longer work like they used to...
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2007/01/quick-word-about-googlebombs.html
Go ahead and try...MSN & Yahoo may pick up the links but I doubt Google will budge much. - cassiopia, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Another guy is running a contest giving away software if you can get a page linking to him to be ahead of Colbert... I for one Choose Free Stuff over Fame.
http://digg.com/offbeat_news/Greatest_Living_American - JAPPO312, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2What's so great about Stephen Colbert? His show isn't even funny.
Greatest living American? I think not. - tawker, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Just a reminder, Wikipedia links don't count for dip in PageRank anymore..... so don't bother screwing up Wikipedia (blocked enough people lately)
- nga911, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3how the ***** is he , i mean no body knows this guy out side the US
- mlindemu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I found it at a Wal-Mart Neighborhood Market. Its not a Super Wal-Mart nor a regular Wal-Mart but a Wal-Mart "neighborhood market" (everything's written in green instead of blue and its more focused on groceries). I got the tip from a Ben and Jerry's employee who seemed almost too enthusiastic about his job... BTW, it is worth the search if you have some time. Mmmmm, chocolate covered waffle cone.
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