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The top autocompletes for "Less Wrong" are
These are my (logged-in) Google results for searching "Less Wrong_X" for each letter of the alphabet (some duplicates appear):
The autocomplete bit doesn't seem to be too big a problem for Less Wrong.
However, it is one of the immediate autocompletes for "Singularity Institute." What pages do you get on the first page of results if you search "singularity institute cult"? I see the wikipedia page, the SI website, Michael Anissimov's blog, RationalWiki, Less Wrong posts about cultishness and death spirals, Lukeprog's blog, a Forbes article mention of "cargo-cult enthusiasm," and at the bottom a blog post making a case against SI and other transhumanist organizations.
Luke's link to How Cults work is pretty funny.