Coupures de Presse [ le 22 mars, 2002 ]

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Google Google accusé de favoriser l'église de scientologie Google est accusé d'avoir éliminé le site Xenu.net, hostile à la scientologie, de la page de résultats pour le mot clé "scientology". Google a confirmé les faits, indiquant qu'il avait reçu de la part de la secte une plainte concernant ce site qui aurait enfreint des copyrights à son sujet. (Abondance)

Press clippings [ March 22, 2002 ]

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