This is not really new but I am amazed to see that searching "miserable failure" on Google still return http://www.whitehouse.gov/president as first URL. This George Bush Google bomb was done over 3 years ago and it's still there!

Looking a bit further, I see that Google actually commented this "issue" on their blog in September 2005. They even configured some Adwords on the terms "failure" and "miserable failure" to link to that article.

But it really looks like they have no intention to do anything about it. And this confirm something we already know. Backlinks and anchor text used in these backlinks are extremely important to achieve good rankings on Google.

Now, as experimenting is a great way to learn, I'm going to launch my own little bomb and see what happens, hehe. Let's try with a search term that is not too popular on Google and see if I can get a site on the first page!

So what is needed to make its own Google Bomb?

1. A victim. And my choice will go to http://www.dmoz.org as they usually take 1 year or more to accept a site, which is pretty annoying.
2. A search term. As DMOZ's subtitle is "open directory project", I think "closed directory project" would be a good one. It's not going to be easy as there is already 3 million pages indexed with that term on Google, but only 204 pages indexed on the exact term "closed directory project" so let's see.
3. Create a few backlinks, mentionning that DMOZ is a closed directory project.
If you want to help, don't hesitate to create a link!

Results in a few weeks...