SPAIN (Agencies) It's called 'google bombing' and it means 'placing certain images or websites at the top of Google search results'. The first of the victims of the latest bout was Eroski in Málaga, which was much commented on Twitter over the weekend and was placed as a 'trending topic' worldwide on Monday. Other victims included Carrefour Murcia, Renfe Coruña and El Corte Inglés Córdoba. Not unusually, the company websites were temporarily replaced by pornographic content. Now let us tell you what happened to us this morning.>We were searching for an image to illustrate one of the articles below; dutifully typed in the correct words on Google Images and got a completely unrelated search result titled Bottoms Up (image). This is the absolute truth, we swear it. It's not that we're complaining, you understand, but those serious companies above are seeking legal action from Google, which says it is investigating. (Memo from Prosp: SETTLE DOWN, monkeys!)
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