Just over a year ago, Google made it harder to achieve Googlebombing, the act of hundreds of Internet users linking up specific words with certain web sites in order to produce a desired (and usually comical) search result, by altering the algorithm responsible for analyzing link structures on web sites. Nevertheless, it looks like those against Scientology beat Google"s changes. If you type in ‘dangerous cult’ into Google, your first result will be the Church of Scientology’s official website. Of course, this little joke is all part of a much bigger war that has reportedly only just begun.
I’m sure you all remember what use to happen when one searched for ‘failure’ with Google. George Bush anyone? Many of you will be quite uptight about this whole concept. Sure, the whole idea is very immature, but Googlebombing is meant to be just a joke (I hope?), and jokes are often immature. Anyway, I"m sure Google will clean all this up soon enough.