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Previous message: "Google bows to Scientology's DMCA request, yanks critics' site" http://www.politechbot.com/p-03281.html Apparently Google relisted only http://www.xenu.net/ (the home page). That is more important than it sounds because xenu.net once again appears when people search for "Scientology" on google -- it ranks fourth. -Declan ----- Forwarded message from Erik Moeller <moeller@scireview.de> ----- From: Erik Moeller <moeller@scireview.de> Subject: Xenu.net is -still- censored by Google To: p2pj@infoanarchy.org Cc: timothy@slashdot.org, declan@politechbot.com, ahl@xenu.net Date: 22 Mar 2002 06:43:18 +0100 When I read that Xenu.net was relisted I was skeptical, and this was quickly confirmed. Contrary to popular reports, the URLs that Scientology complained about can still not be found in Google's index, except for the root site, http://www.xenu.net. First, let me reproduce once again the list of censored sites: www.xenu.net/ www.xenu.net/archive/photoalbum/ www.xenu.net/archive/photoalbum/propaganda/ www.xenu.net/archive/photoalbum/propaganda/index.html www.xenu.net/archive/photoalbum/propaganda/prop1.html www.xenu.net/archive/photoalbum/propaganda/prop2.html www.xenu.net/archive/photoalbum/propaganda/prop3.html www.xenu.net/archive/photoalbum/propaganda/prop4.html www.xenu.net/archive/photoalbum/propaganda/prop5.html www.xenu.net/archive/photoalbum/propaganda/prop6.htm www.xenu.net/archive/photoalbum/ clan-images.html www.xenu.net/archive/photoalbum/lisas_case_sup.html www.xenu.net/archive/events/ www.xenu.net/archive/events/lisa_mcpherson/ www.xenu.net/archive/disk/ www.xenu.net/archive/disk/enemy/ www.xenu.net/archive/disk/enemy/da.htm www.xenu.net/archive/disk/enemy/targets.htm www.xenu.net/archive/disk/archive/grd_chrt.htm www.xenu.net/archive/disk/OTIII/ www.xenu.net/archive/hubbandcw/ www.xenu.net/archive/greece/ www.xenu.net/archive/HCOB/FU-HCOB-630511.html www.xenu.net/archive/HCOB/FU-HCOB-630714.html www.xenu.net/archive/HCOB/FU-HCOB-610619.html www.xenu.net/archive/enemy_names/ www.xenu.net/archive/enemy_names/dead_agenting.html www.xenu.net/archive/enemy_names/targets.html www.xenu.net/archive/tonelevel.html www.xenu.net/archive/grade_chart.html www.xenu.net/archive/leaflet/ www.xenu.net/archive/leaflet/xenuleaf.htm www.xenu.net/archive/leaflet/xenusw.htm www.xenu.net/archive/leaflet/xenunl.htm www.xenu.net/archive/leaflet/xenufr.htm www.xenu.net/archive/leaflet/xenufi.htm www.xenu.net/archive/leaflet/xenuno.htm www.xenu.net/archive/leaflet/xenuge.htm www.xenu.net/archive/leaflet/xenuaf.htm www.xenu.net/archive/leaflet/xenuru-k.htm www.xenu.net/archive/leaflet/xenuheb.htm www.xenu.net/archive/so/ Let's pick randomly one of the URLs, www.xenu.net/archive/tonelevel.html, and enter the phrase "The numbers preceding the emotional tone indicate the arbitrary level of the tone." in Google. Another document with the same content shows up, but not the censored one. A different methodology, let's search all documents on xenu.net for the word "leaflet". Xenu.net has this leaflet in various translations. http://www.google.com/search?q=site:xenu.net+leaflet+-dirty&hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&oe=ISO-8859-1&start=0&sa=N As of this moment, only the Spanish and Italian leaflet show up, which are both NOT in the list of URLs scientology wanted to be censored. In other words, Google has relisted the main site, probably because they find the copyright claims spurious and found it an effective way to quell the bad publicity to do so. Hidden censorship is much worse than when it's obvious. The publicity needs to go one until Google reindexes all URLs, especially since visitors will otherwise miss information when doing *targeted* searches, as opposed to untargeted ones for Scientology in general. Sincerely, Erik Moeller ----- End forwarded message ----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------