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Young internet geek is facing up to 3 years in prison. The man is accused of insulting president Lech Kaczy?ski.

23 years old Marek W. from Cieszyn has written an amateur piece of software for so-called “website positioning.” After typing the given keyword into a search engine [Google, it turns out] the positioned website pops up as first item.

The man used the official website of Polish president Lech Kaczy?ski for testing the software. When internet users typed “kutas” ["penis"] they got the official president’s site. Furthermore –

it was the first result.

They played with this for couple of months – right up to March this year. That’s when the 23 years old was traced by investigator from the Katowice police office.Finding him wasn’t difficult – the man used his home computer, which police easily traced by its IP address.

The computer amateur confirmed that he wrote the program. “I just wanted to verify my skills and check if the software works” this was his explanation during the hearings.

Well, if you ask me, the word “Kutas” in google has 500k results so its not hard to be number 1. Its not like targetting “web hosting” or “real estate”. I don’t even understand why he built a software for it, just get a few quality backlinks with the keyword “Kutas” as your title and give it sometime.

Anyway, Insulting your own president world wide is not a great thing to do but I hope they take it easy on him. Here is the latest news from google about Google Bombs:
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2007/01/quick-word-about-googlebombs.html