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By Adam Gaffin
Network World Fusion, 03/21/02

Welcome to the real world. Google's busy humming along, becoming the world's best search engine. Then as a lark, some people start Googlebombing, i.e., getting lots of sites to link to a particular site to drive up its rankings. Then the Church of Scientology gets involved. Then Scientology critics retaliate. Now Google's blocked Operation Clambake, a prominent anti-Scientology site, from its database. Seems Google is worried it might get sued under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act because Operation Clambake posts material the Scientologists claim is copyrighted.

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