The Dueling Banjos Effect.

September 18, 2003, 10:13 am

Courtesy of the Debian Weekly News:

Some of the most bizarre mails on debian-devel over the years have been repeated requests by various people for the sheet music for dueling banjos. Several list subscribers have been eager to assist the posters in their search. Jim Penny called this the Dueling Banjo Effect and explained that this has become a self-perpetuating Google-flop. People use Google which points them to Debian to get this sheet music, and the act of asking reinforces Google's notion that Debian is a good place to get the music.

Think about the implications of this: with a coordinated effort, you could get google to associate anything with a website. This sounds like something Jeff/Jerkface would do.

Of course, now I've reinforced google's mistaken notion that debian has anything to do with dueling banjos sheet music. Sorry debian...