SEO Roundtable picks on a meme in the wake of Michael Jackson’s death:
If you conduct a Google search for ugliest person in the world today, you will see Google listing a picture of the late Michael Jackson … As virtually everyone knows, Michael Jackson died on June 25th and the memorial service was yesterday. The popularity of Jackson, especially right now, with how Google ranks documents, has likely lead to Jackson’s picture being listed as the number one result for that search.
That is, its referring to this particular image, hot-linked to the San Francisco Gate (classy!) from the Winamp Forums:
One wonders whether or not Michael Jackson’s been the unfortunate victim of a Googlebomb — my money is on “no” for at least one technical reason (I think): Google Images doesn’t work that way. As far as I know, for images to get indexed on Google Images, the influence of off-page factors, namely the quality and quantity of inbound links probably doesn’t matter as much as influencing the SERPs for the usual Google web results. Rather, on-page factors probably do, including the strength of the domain that is hosting, surrounding text of the image, the thematic content of the page, and the meta-tags of the the <image> tag, including the title, alt, and so on.
If I’m wrong, point me to a source. On the other hand, speaking from personal experience, I happen to own a first page result for “lolcat” with nothing but on-page factors. At least that’s what I’ve convinced myself is the cause.
31 Comments
micheal jackson doesn’t look good in this pic but other than that he isn’t the ugliest person !!!!
leave Michael Jackson alone. fuck u guys.
ok Michael Jackson isen’t ugly, and u need to leave him alone, but dont do his pictures or else and dont dis him like tat.
Michael Jackson Is not ugly…He is a beautiful Person…U ppl calling him ugly have no feeling’s at all how would u like it if u lot were been called ugly…Stop All This Shit! & Leave him to rest!
ugly
he can kiss my ass
jeez just leave him alone his dead let him rest
B-but… the number one image of the King of Pop that appears is the one on *this* site. Is that a joke or an incredible coincidence?
3 letters R.I.P
hes the king of dance and pop and will always live on!
you picked a bad pic. ur just losers dis urself hes dead ur retarded! LONG LIVE MICHAEL JACKSON!!!!!!!!!!!!
He is definatly not the ugliest person in the world. That is an ignorant thing to say.
Personally I think he is effing hott Black or white.
Rip Michael
I agree with the other comments. This is a dodgy pic but MJ was a good-looking guy back in the day, and even before he died, he wasn’t ‘ugly’. Any way it’s the beauty on the inside that counts, however cliched that might sound.
what the hell happend here?
how dare you you dont even know how to dance
or maybe youre the ugliest person in the whole world
maybe your just jealous !!!!!!!
HATERS YOU DESERVE TO ROT IN HELL have a nice day :D MJ IS SEXY!!!!
all yall that be hatin on my man go to hell you can burn for all i care he is sexy and u juss hatin cuz u aint ok next time you wanna say sumthin like you gotta go through me cuz i got his back
michael jackson is the cutest man on earth,and the best singer and dancer.
leave him alone hater you are an asshole he is the most kind hearted person on the face of the earth ur the ugliest thing on earth ur face will maybe show up on there too rated the #1 ugliest animal or beast on earth hater u mess with him u mess with me asshole try dat agin u idiot u will c
Dude leave the fuckin man alone what the hell is wrong with you people!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
show some remose for a guy that wanted us to libe better through music he donated thousands of money the haters really needa stop im not mean micheal jackson is the one who help me change completletly i satred with the man in the mirror but i haf to say i want the haters or the pwople that say he is a pedphile which is 6,000 percent false write a song and see how many albums you sell really…?
what i wonder is why everybody hated this son of a bitch when he was alive and as soon as he died eveyone all of a sudden wants to be on his nuts
Michael Joseph Jackson was the most beautiful person inside and out. The man had the biggest heart and the most peaceful soul. If anybody even tried to look past Michael’s appearance, they might see that.
I don’t thing he looks ugly, to me he look cute and you have to remember this was very early in the morning and he did not have time to do anything not wash his face go to the bathroom,put on his makeup or anything,so he didn’t have time to get ready.
i can tell you that if that was one of us we would look the same because we would have no makeup,we would be tired,and we would look like him.
why are you saying the king of pop is ugly?
ummm ppl can take steriod for facial hair and he is UGLYYYYYYYY
I think that michael jackson was one of the most beautiful people. He had a good soul and kind heart. He was a blessing to us all and people just trashed him and contiue to do so. Those people have no heart and need to show respect. MJ will be missed
you shut up he is very nice you are a fucking bich you know nothing you hear that yay bich shut up!!!!!!!!!!!!:P bich
he is not ugly
he is ugly
my husband michael joseph iz an was da sexiest man dat eva lived so all u haters get off hiz team lyke 4realz diz man cnt get no sexier tell u y luk at his otha pics but u decided to use diz 1 so jus becuse ur superficial an shallow dnt mean u can cum on my hubbyu lyke dat……………………LOVE YOU MICHAEL JOSEPH JACKSON AN MAY YOUR HEAVENLY KIND HEARTED SOUL R.I.P ……………{M.J KING OF POP AUGUST 29,1958-JUNE 25,2009} TEARZ…. MAY HE LIVE ON 4 EVA IN MY HEART AN ALSO DA HEART OF ALL HIZ OTHER CLOSE AN NON FAKE FANS
Michael Jackon’s sexy. Can u please remove that pic please
How can you call that ugly? Do you have something wrong with your eyes?