Google threatened by Church of Scientology using the DMCA, (temporarily) suppresses other people's web sites from appearing under a search for Scientology. Google's response letter is quoted here, including links to some of the pages removed from Google's index (which Boing Boing has helpfully hyperlinked for easy browsing). Only some of the suppressed URLs contain any content copyrighted by the Church, and then mostly in obviously "fair use" amounts.

Since this first happened, Google has relisted xenu.net's home page, which they concluded is not reasonably covered by the Church's copyright claim.

Google is the primary means of accessing content on the web for which the address is not already known. Thankfully, we can all blog this incident and people researching the Church will find our links to the suppressed material-- at least until the Church threatens Google to suppress our weblogs. If an organization can have its critics removed from Google via the DMCA, then we have a serious problem. Of course, the Church of Scientology already tried to attack xenu.net's ISPs.

The Church has tried manipulating Google in other ways, as well.