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Searching for the Most Intelligent Guy on the Web
About a year ago I made this experiment in SEO to see how with a – admittedly – not very often used search term I can dominate the search engines. So I posted this blog post about the most intelligent guy on the whole web and got it to rank #1 on Google quickly.
But today, when checking out something at Google’s webmaster tools I noticed that the link to this post generated a 404 error – oops! It took me a while to notice what was different in the URL that worked and the one that did not. A little sub-directory /blog/ – I had moved WordPress from it’s directory /blog/ down to the root of the web site.
The whole thing turned out to be a false alarm because Google had also indexed the later version of the site without the /blog/ and the page was found just fine. But as I was already looking into this I thought why not revisit the issue and strengthen my position as the most important guy on the internet and everywhere else.
So, yes, if you ended up here on this page then you probably – for whatever sick reason – searched for the this one totally smart guy on the web. I suppose you were hoping to find your name – sorry – but that position is taken by your’s truly Merlin G. Silk!
So, I would suggest you get a life and do something constructive.
C Ya!
Scientology, Hackers and Controversy
A few days ago the Hackers Anonymous declared war on the Church of Scientology, and today the internet is in a buzz about an apparent Google bombing. If you don’t know what Google bombing is: it’s ganging up of many – mostly bloggers – to all link to a specific page with the same text. For example a while ago a Google bomb was launched on George Bush’s bio page with the words “total failure,” but since then Google patched that hole and Google bombs became at least difficult. For reaching a top ranking now Google required the words that link to the site to appear within that site. So as long as George’s bio page did not contain the words ‘total ‘and ‘failure,’ he would not be a total failure (my wording was intended.)
But today when you search for ‘dangerous cult’ the top result was the Scientology main site www.Scientology.org.

Search Engine Land was not sure if that really was a Google bomb as the Scientology front page does not – certainly – contain the word ‘cult’ even though it does contain the word ‘dangerous.’ Another fact that supported that doubt was, that only some three hundred sites could be found that pointed to the Scientology site with the text ‘dangerous cult.’
And here is where the real power of the internet comes in. When I did the search on Yahoo
linkdomain:scientology.org “dangerous cult”
I got over 1400 hits. In other words, since that article on Search Engine Land was written, which might have been a few hours before I read it, more than 1000 other people picked up this story and wrote/blogged about it. If it has not been a Google bomb so far, it was now. And I am certainly proud to participate by supplying a link to a dangerous cult as well.
I know the Cof$ from the inside but I have to admit that I just love this power of the ‘Don’t mess with us!’ There are just more and more sites like this about the Delphi Academy of Los Angeles as a recruiting base springing up that it can’t be stopped centrally. It’s guerrilla warfare the Cof$ is involved in now and history has shown that such a war can not be won.
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To: Frater Otto Charcani Chico, Arequipa, Peru Note to the mail carrier: Dear Postman, Frater Otto residence is a cave at the foot of the volcano El Misti. You can find it by going 340 steps on the road leaving Charcani Chico and leading to El Misti. Turn right, 560 steps, and turn left. Then all the way straight up the hill until the entrance of the cave. Thank you so much, dear Mr. Postman! The enveloppe had the following contents: - a business card - a floppy disk with a text file called log175.txt The only letters on the business card said: FRATER NOVE And the text on the floppy read: Log #175 of the Logs of JD Flora, Venice, Italy, ... Venerable Frater Otto, my name is JD Flora. By the time you receive this letter, if you should receive it at all, I will have retreated from this Universe. Since I have been unable to have my body being killed without creating a new attachment in the process and thus prolonging the process of reincarnation itself, I had to find someone to hand it over to peacefully. This someone was a friend of you and he is now the new owner of the body of what was once known as 'JD Flora'. While scanning your friend's mind in order to find the 'hook' that would make him enter my body at the very moment I would be abandoning it, I found your whereabouts and the way to your abode in the mountains of Peru. If you read these lines, the postman will have understood the vague directions that I found in your friend's confused brain. In short, be aware that your friend, known to you as Frater Nove. did NOT die at age 98 on today's date but rather that he transmigrated into the body of JD Flora, 43 years old. Sensational persons call this a 'body swap' and it can be very well considered a sacrilege of major proportions. Therefore I write this letter to you in order to assure you that it was not his own doing even though he had been toying with this idea for a very long time. In fact, reading his thoughts made me, the 'original' owner of the body of JD Flora, having the very idea of how to exit this Universe without 'dying' and thus entering the 'Bardo', the in-between-live area. If you had educated yourself properly (what you probably never did), you would know that the 'programming' that is happening during the time of the Bardo is carrying a significant risk of being reborn into this world. Whoever should tell you otherwise, is either blind or blatantly lying. There is another reason I'm writing this letter. There are only few minutes left before Frater Nove will appear here at midnight in this rather crummy hotel in Venice, Italy, and it occurred to me that just now that, even though I manipulated his mind carefully to follow the steps of the ancient secret of body swapping, his heart and mind may be too confused to let go of his old body. This means, there is a chance that in his desperation Frater Nove may attempt to KILL his own body in order to accommodate the process of entering my own, JD Flora's, body. Take notice: if Frater Nove will kill his old body in the process of obtaining a new one, he himself, as the owner of the new body, may be accused of the 'murder' of his old body. In the absence of witnesses, a criminal investigation would arrive at this as a 'logical conclusion'. In this case, I hope that this letter, my 'confession' so to speak, will clear him of all accusations of murder. That he, in this case, still committed suicide in respect to his old body, is something he has to confront himself within his deranged and confused belief systems. July 3rd, 1995, Venice, Italy, 00:42 JD Flora
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