Others questioned the inclusion of the Spectator as a target of vitriol.

Sophomore Rob Spinella, who came up with the idea for the Google-Bomb, said he did not think the plan was realistic, calling it “sort of a joke.”

“I don’t really think people are going to take it seriously,” he said.

Spinella also stressed that he had no problem with the Facebook. Although he said he disagreed with its closed viewing policy, he thought it would have little effect on the CUcommunity, to which 1900 of the university’s 6,700 undergraduates belong.

Thefacebook.com has attracted more than 85 percent of Harvard’s 6,600 undergraduates since its launch and is growing three times faster than CUcommunity, according to Zuckerberg.

Spinella updated his CUcommunity journal on Saturday with a message detailing the birth of the Google-Bomb.

“I was pretty annoyed by thefacebook.com’s attempt to rip off CUcommunity’s idea and usurp our online community,” the message read. “I thought to myself, somebody ought to Google-Bomb The Facebook and knock them into Google obscurity, as if they never existed.”

Zuckerberg, who had not heard of the Google-Bomb until this Saturday, was surprised at Columbia’s reaction. “I’m just doing this because I think it’s something that’s cool,” he said.

“The person who’s creating that is feeling some serious insecurity or competition,” Zuckerberg added.

Zuckerberg said he has not advertised the website at the other schools because he wants to see how the network would grow organically.

—Staff writer Leon Neyfakh can be reached at neyfakh@fas.harvard.edu.

Thefacebook.com first came to Harvard over a month ago. Since then, the site’s creator, Mark E. Zuckerberg ‘06, has opened the site to students at five other colleges—and says he is planning a further expansion.

Feb 4: Facebook launched Feb 25: Columbia added Feb 26: Stanford added March 1: Yale added March 7: Dartmouth and Cornell added Pending: UPenn and BU to be added