A recent jump in the polls for GOP presidential hopeful Rick Santorum has reportedly done more than give the Romney camp pause for concern. The surge has also helped alleviate Santorum's so-called "Google problem."

As noted by The Wall Street Journal, the result that has been associated with Santorum's name on Google Search for some time has been pushed down, making room for the former senator's campaign page, Twitter feed, and Wikipedia page.

For those who aren't in on the joke, typing "Rick Santorum" into Google.com has for quite some time returned a link to spreadingsantorum.com, a Web site that uses his namesake as slang for ... well, I'll let you Google it.

The site is the brainchild of "Savage Love" columnist Dan Savage, who coined the term, and the site, after Santorum made some controversial statements about gay marriage back in 2003.

As a result, the link to Savage's website has been associated with searches for Santorum for quite some time. The issue cropped up again back in September, as Santorum ramped up his presidential campaign. At the time, though, it apparently wasn't enough to top Savage's site on Google. But after a few primary victories and headline-grabbing, controversial statements, spreadingsantorum.com has been pushed to the second page of Google search results for the candidate's name.

Last year, , arguing that the search giant could change its results. But the company said at the time that it only does that in rare cases. The Journal said Google didn't make any Santorum-related changes, "but did recently implement a number of other tweaks that could have impacted this result."