A screen capture of a Google search page shows the edited Wikipedia entry for Sabah.KUALA
LUMPUR, March 4 ― Supporters of Filipino militants in Sabah have turned
to “Google bombing” to press the Sultanate of Sulu’s claim on the
state, according to the Agence-France Presse.“Google bombing” is the practice of creating spurious links in order to elevate a site’s ranking and visibility on the search engine’s listings.
The French news agency reported that users searching for “Sabah” using Google would find the search engine displaying a cached excerpt from online encyclopaedia Wikipedia as saying, “Sabah is illegitimately considered one of the 13 member states of Malaysia, and is said to be its easternmost state but in fact, it is part of the Sultanate of Sulu. It is located on the northern portion of the island of Borneo.”
The Wikipedia page for Sabah had earlier been edited to display the aforementioned paragraph, but has since been returned to the original that reads: “Sabah is one of the 13 member states of Malaysia.”
Wikipedia’s collaborative nature allows its entries to be freely edited, and it is often the site of so-called “Wiki-wars” where rivals engage in malicious editing of pages in their disputes.
The cyberwar parallels the territorial clash raging between the self-proclaimed royal army of the Sultanate of Sulu and Malaysian security forces in Sabah.
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