Google restores Scientology links: Remember the flap several weeks back about Scientology’s manipulation of its web page content to place its own pages higher than those of detractors in search engines? The enduser response, including mine, was to “bomb” Google with links to xenu.net, a major site critical of Scientology, to get it ranked higher when searching on that term. Well, as of Tuesday, Google removed links to xenu.net from its index. Kuro5hin and others speculated the self-censorship might have been a response to the “googlebombing”, but ZDnet reports that Scientology’s lawyers directly intervened with Google to remove xenu.net from its listings, threatening Google with action under the DMCA for xenu.net’s alleged “copyright infringement”. It does appear that it has been the resultant public outcry that has gotten Google to reverse that decision.I just did the search; the critical site is back in at fourth place again. Care to try to get it higher? Here again is another link to this site critical of Scientology.