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Google screenshot is newsworthy, and we will not be removing it

By Nicholas Carlson, 3:40 PM on Thu Jan 31 2008, 1,645 views (Edit, to draft, Top, Slurp)

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Put a little squiggle in front a search term in Google and you get results for both that term and the terms Google considers synonyms. So as you can see here from this screenshot, Google considers Scientology to be a synonym for cult. Which is totally brave of Blogoscoped and us for pointing it out. Bring on the 2.5 million page views.

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