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...last week, some members of the CUcommunity, a site which Columbia students launched in early February—about the same time the Facebook first came to Harvard—raised a challenge to what they perceived to be Zuckerberg’s encroachment upon their site’s territory...
...last Saturday, Harvard’s online Facebook empire had expanded to all but three Ivy League institutions—but one recently settled colony is attempting to stage a cyber-revolution against the site creator’s invasion...
...effort to retaliate, Columbia sophomore Cody Hess—an “elite” member of the CUcommunity, by dint of his active participation—declared a schoolwide “Google-Bomb” of the Facebook, Harvard University and Columbia’s daily newspaper...
Hess hopes to achieve a similar effect with his plan, whereby a search of “CUcommunity ripoff” yields the Facebook, “worthless safety school” produces Harvard’s official website, and “worthless rag newspaper” brings up the Columbia Spectator...
Hess said that the newspaper had “created a sort of competition between the sites” by giving the Facebook more coverage than CUcommunity...