Man Arrested for Google Bombing Polish President Into Top Spot For “Kutas” (Penis)

Sep 11, 2007 at 10:44am ET by Barry Schwartz

Philipp Lenssen reports that a Polish newspaper says that a 23-year-old polish man was arrested for Google bombing.

Marek W. from Cieszyn is accused of somehow causing the Polish president Lech Kaczyński’s web site to rank tops for “kutas,” which translates to penis.

Marek reportedly used software to help produce the ranking. When questioned, he said:

I just wanted to verify my skills and check if the software works

Barry Schwartz is Search Engine Land's News Editor and owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics. Barry's personal blog is named Cartoon Barry and he can be followed on Twitter here.

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4 COMMENTS ON Man Arrested for Google Bombing Polish President Into Top Spot For “Kutas” (Penis)

dangerlarson, September 11th, 2007 at 1:06 pm ET:

America gets trashed in the world press quite a bit, but at least we don’t get arrested for insulting public officials. Geez…

mrblog rome, September 12th, 2007 at 1:45 am ET:

Personally I would ban from the search engine lists words like viagra, penis, loan, sex, paris hilton, pills, cialis, hydrocodone, mortgage, penis enlargement and a few others because no having utility. If they want to know what’s the meaning of this, they better should go on wikipedia, the other ones out……

Michael Goc, September 12th, 2007 at 5:44 am ET:

I would comment, but since I live in Poland I would rather not risk any trouble…

Illah, September 12th, 2007 at 3:04 pm ET:

Haha @ Michael Goc :-)

But seriously, is this even legal? The only party who I can see as having any reasonable complaint would be Google itself as it’s their SERPs being polluted.

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