I noticed that the number of hits FmH received yesterday nearly doubled from my normal weekday count of 400-500 to 899. (It’s probably best left for a different post to marvel — and sigh? — that with everything else changing all around us in this world the number of you who read FmH has been so absolutely unvarying for many many months…) My referrer log tells me that this was probably due to a link I got in Molly Wood’s Net Effect column on CNET about the Google/Scientology flap.Down at the bottom of her seventh paragraph, she points to my speculation that it was a “concerted bombing campaign” (which attempted to rank a site critical of Scientology higher on Google) that was responsible for Google removing that site from its index until public outcry forced them to reverse that decision. Wood is critical of the googlebombing concept, finding it ironic that Google, beloved of geeks everywhere, may fall victim to geekish manipulation no different, she feels, than Scientology’s infowar on its adversaries. Funny thing is, while she seems to take my word as the causal gospel and goes on to base a critique of blogger ethics on it, my speculation that it was the googlebombing campaign that caused Google to cave was probably not accurate, as my post goes on to point out.