“Where’s the best place to hide a dead body?”/“Google’s second page of search results”

“What’s the best place to hide a dead body?” The jocular answer is the second page of Google search results, because nobody ever goes there.
 
“Am I the only one who realises you could hide a dead body or drugs on the second page of a google search and it would never be found?” was cited on Twitter on December 2, 2011.  “@THA_SCARFACE: The best place to hide a dead body is on page 2 of google’s search results…..you can kill me now” was posted on Twitter by The48thRonin (and others) on December 24, 2011. “The best place to hide a dead body is on the second page of a Google search” was cited on Twitter on January 5, 2012.
   
“I consider page 2 of Google results the dark web” is a related saying.
   
     
Twitter
@LeonardOlaotan
Am I the only one who realises you could hide a dead body or drugs on the second page of a google search and it would never be found?
8:27 PM - 2 Dec 2011
 
Twitter
Ugo Thomas
@theugothomas
The best place to hide a dead body is on page 2 of google’s search results…..you can kill me now
4:12 AM · Dec 24, 2011·UberSocial for BlackBerry
 
Twitter
The48thRonin
@TheAfoke
*cocks Gun* “@THA_SCARFACE: The best place to hide a dead body is on page 2 of google’s search results…..you can kill me now”
4:14 AM · Dec 24, 2011·Twitter for BlackBerry®
 
Twitter
Karlee Norris
‏@karleenorris
The best place to hide a dead body is on the second page of a Google search.
7:04 PM - 5 Jan 2012
   
MemeCenter
September 21, 2012
The Best Place To Hide A Dead Body Is On The Second Page Of Google
   
Newswire
Watchdog Reveals How to Remove Bad Reviews from Google Amidst Concerns
By Zoe McAlister April 18, 2013
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“It is often said that the best place to hide a dead body is on a second page of Google. If a business listing is overwhelmed with positive reviews, the negative ones will simply get pushed off the first page, effectively being as good as gone,” says Budimir, adding that this method levels the playing field for those businesses who are victims of predatory defamation tactics.
     
YouTube
Dead Body: Found on Page 2 of Google
ilocal Online Advertising & Marketing
Published on Jan 3, 2014
The best place to hide a dead body….. second page on Google
 
Pando Daily
After Google bought Nest, it removed one of the company’s biggest competitors from search results
BY JAMES ROBINSON
ON MAY 29, 2014
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“And, as they say, there’s no greater place to hide a dead body than on the second page of Google’s search results.”
 
The Huffington Post
Chad Pollitt (Fmr. US Army Commander; VP of Audience, Relevance.com)
The Best Place to Hide a Dead Body is Page Two of Google
Posted: 04/18/2014 12:35 pm EDT Updated: 06/17/2014 5:59 am EDT
The title of this post is quite attention-grabbing and packs a powerful message. It certainly caught my attention when the quote was dropped on inbound.org by Dharmesh Shah on April 3rd. He gave Brian Clark, a.k.a. Copyblogger, credit for it; but later, Brian posted that it wasn’t his quote. After doing a little research, I found that the source of the quote was “unknown,” so I don’t know who to give actual credit to. No matter—the attention it garnered on inbound.org and the action it received on Twitter meant the message resonated with a lot of folks—as it should.
 
Twitter
Ashli O’Connell
‏@ashlio
Where is the best place in the digital world to hide a dead body? The second page of Google search results #SEO #TulsaTalks
9:17 AM - 13 Nov 2014
   
Digital Book World
The Two Sides of SEO for Book Publishers
By: Murray Izenwasser | February 18, 2015
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If links to your pages aren’t in the first couple of positions on the first page of the search results, the chances of someone clicking on them are pretty slim. And if you’re not on the first page, you have basically zero chance of getting the click. (Remember the old joke: Where’s the best place to hide a dead body? On the second page of the search results, because nobody ever looks there.)