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Beware, I got the impression straight away that some sites were censored from the results for no good reason.

For example, if you search "jehovahs witnesses", all pages from jw.org are missing.

Exactly the same thing happened when I searched "mormons" - the official website is missing and it only brings up sects/hate/conspiracies against mormons.



If you want mormons in positive light, you should search for "latter-day saints", as that's how they typically brand themselves.

jw.org is on the indexing list, just pretty far down, based on the fact that previous times it's been visited it's had ton of javascript.

I don't have an axe to grind with fringe religious movements, I actually love them to bits. Try searching for Nag Hammadi or Hermes Trismegistos.


jw.org appears to be the kind of modern web design this is trying to avoid. I seriously doubt it has anything to do with the cult.




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