Monday, April 23, 2007

Google's Greatest Living American

When you search for that term, who do you think comes up? A President? Doctor? Nobel Laureate? Nah, it is none other than Stephen Colbert. Colbert got up on the top of Google searches by promoting himself to be google-bombed in that fashion, and it worked. Stephen will stop at nothing to have the best ice cream, satirical comedy show and blowing up on Google.

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It's official. Stephen Colbert is the Greatest Living American, or at least now ranks tops for that phrase at Google. It's all come from the latest Google bombing campaign sparked off in part by Stephen himself. The backstory on this, plus the "I thought Google bombing didn't work anymore" angle, all below.

Last week at the SES NY conference, I missed getting to see the Colbert Report because, sadly, moderating the Robots.txt Summit meant I wouldn't get there in time. Someone, anyone, score me tickets next time!

Jonah Stein from Alchemist Media DID go and apparently raised the issue of Google-bombing during the audience Q&A with Mr. Colbert (out of respect, I use the Mr. honorific. So say we all). What would Mr. Colbert like to rank for?

Giant Brass Balls.


Well he even got to rank on top for that term as well. Colbert certainly has them. Too bad we couldn't see them on display at this weekend's White House Correspondents Dinner. Instead the Bush impersonator came on and bombed, and not in a good Google way either. Nevertheless, Colbert marches on towards comedic greatness, leaving moronic politicians in his dust and wowing the rest of us.