Tom Cruise Buys Adwords to Control Search Results On His Name
Over the weekend it was noted that Tom Cruise, or some of his Scientology peeps, had purchased a raft of Google Adwords advertising indicating a new, re-launched personal site at TomCruise.com. Adwords is Google's text-based advertising program, allowing anyone to buy their way into the top of a search page for a certain term. The sponsored link to TomCruise.com was, naturally, appearing whenever anyone searched for "Tom Cruise," a seeming attempt to try to subvert his name's usual top search results: Tom's IMDB page, his Wikipedia entry, and, our personal favorite, TomCruiseIsNuts.com.
Tom's site currently displays only a counter that is ticking its way down to noon EST. What exactly is launching is anyone's guess, but we wouldn't be surprised if it was somehow connected to last week's launch of Scientology's YouTube channel. [Source: Hollywood Newsroom]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
berryskrill @ May 5th 2008 2:49PM
Maybe if we click on it enough we'll be able to bankrupt the church of scientology. Hey, it's worth a shot.
ecco6t9 @ May 5th 2008 3:06PM
People actually care about this basket case?
Vic20 @ May 5th 2008 5:07PM
The password on his account ==> FIDELIO
Angiebaby @ May 5th 2008 6:13PM
Maybe noon EST is when he's returning to the Mother Ship.