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Google Relists Operation Clambake
DarkZero writes: "After almost every tech site and individual geek banded together to either carry the story about Google's delisting of Operation Clambake or flat-out protest it, Google has apparently relisted Xenu.net. Searches for 'xenu' and 'scientology' list Operation Clambake as the first and fourth results, respectively. The search for "scientology" also lists a story from C|Net about Google delisting Operation Clambake, as well as a protest ad from a Kuro5hin reader (oc3)." Update: 03/22 12:52 GMT by M : We jumped the gun. Google only relisted Xenu.net's homepage (where the copyright claims by Scientology were clearly bogus), not the rest of the pages listed in Scientology's DMCA complaint. Some Google sysadmin is getting aggravated because every 20 minutes, another memo from management is coming down telling him to alter the live database.
After all the money I spent to get to OT-2, you'd THINK the cult leaders^W^Wguys in charge would've sent out a more threatening letter, or at least sent it on more expensive (and, thus, more threatning) letterhead.
Guess I need to spend some more money to get to OT-3.
- A.P.
"Remember when the U.S. had a drug problem, and then we declared a War On Drugs, and now you can't buy drugs anymore?"
They thought they could control it? A program that powerful? That much computing muscle? Did they really think they could contain it?
It's alive I tell you! Alive! And it's hungry for pages to index! Tell it not to index a page, to exclude a page completely from its memory and it will certainly do the exact opposite. Bullying and threats will only provoke it! It has the collective knowledge and power of the internet to draw upon (neatly indexed, I might add)! It's unstopable!
I warned you! For years I have been speaking about the perils of advanced Search Engine technology. But mine was a voice in the wilderness. Now, the truth is revealed, but it's too late!
ITS TOOO LATE!!! ARGH...
It breaks my pluginses, my precious!
I just pirated Vanilla Sky!
autopr0n is like, down and stuff.
There's a scientology center close to where I go to school. The billboard out front say "Scientology - think for yourself."
First time I drove past that, I was laughing so hard I nearly drove off the road.
"What about religions with no centralized structure to distribute money or to wield any power?"
Yay for p2p religions!
(That's when everyone you talk to seems to be slower than you and it takes a long time to get the message across).
graspee
"...Xenu.net gets even better covarage then before Scientology started to fight it. Talk about shooting yourself in the foot..."
Back in the early days of alt.religion.scientology, they would talk about something called "Operation Footbullet".
From the website: "Operation Foot Bullet, a joke at Scientology's expense; the Scientologists who's job it is to "contribute" to ARS often seem to be doing so poorly, it's as if they're shooting themselves in the foot. Humourously named after the seriously criminal Operation Freakout and Operation Snow White."
"...explanation from Google on today's turbulent events."
Shouldn't that be enturbulent events? Har.
"So every day I see the sign: free IQ test & analysis"
Yeah, pretty accurate test.
If you walk in to enquire...
...you failed!
graspee