MONTAGNE: Right, so given the rise of open-access journals, you decided to do an experiment. That is, send in for publication a fake experiment. And, as you describe it, it is a sting operation.

In a GIF-y post entitled “Really, Rupert?” Google offered up a point-by-point repudiation of the Journal story, which showed how an awful lot of Googlers were visiting the White House as the ...