Another good write up by patni,

Google bomb: The combined effort of multiple webmasters to change the Google search results usually for harmful effect. The “miserable failure” – George Bush, and “greatest living American” – Steven Colbert Google bombs are famous examples. It is an attempt to influence the page ranking of webpage within the google search engine by linking to it from many other sources.It is actually a practice intended to influence the ranking of particular pages in result returned by the google search engine

There are real-life consequences when someone aims to destroy someone else on the Internet. It’s all too easy to destroy another person on the Web. In cyber-slamming cases, victims are often intimidated into silence because they feel powerless and helpless, and their first instinct is to shut themselves up so that things don’t “get worse.”

But despite what may be Google’s best efforts and intentions, the machine gets it wrong at least as often as it gets it right. The errors and omissions of the world’s search engines visit punishing consequences on the victims of erroneous, obsolete, incomplete, or false information. Nonetheless, despite this mixed (and possibly worsening) track record, the rising primacy of Google as the world’s most important data channel seems to hoodwink many of us into believing what we see when it comes up on the top of Google search results. The theory goes: if it shows up on Google, it must be true and it’s somehow the best information about the subject being searched.

Google bowling: Maliciously trying to lower a sites rank by sending it links from the “bad neighborhood” – Kind of like yelling “Good luck with that infection!” to your buddy as you get off the school bus – there is some controversy as to if this works or is just an SEO urban myth.

Google dance: The process of updating Google’s servers by searching the Web, which generally takes place once each month. Webmasters often check the placement of their Web pages after the Google Dance to see if they rank higher or lower than before. Google Dance”refers as the time just after the search engine results pages change because of a change in . – Some internet marketers reference “Google Dance” as the time just after the search engine results pages change because of a change in Google algorithms. Usually webmasters and marketers who lost top ranking and keyword placements were the ones who told the “Google Dance” story.