Google Ratings & Offensive Websites

I’ve recently been thinking about a lot of the sites I view through links on feministing and things I link to in my own life.  If I’m using a link to "monitor the enemy" I don’t want to give them hits that improve Google’s results status.  The teen breaks site linked to on the main page claims to appear on Google before any abortion clinic when you search for "teenage pregnancy."  (I tried. And went through four pages.  And didn’t see it.  But this is neither here nor there…)

So, what do we do about it?  I went to a lecture with Deborah Lipstadt recently, the woman who was sued in England for libel by Holocaust denier David Irving.  And her blog has a few suggests as to how to avoid giving credit where credit is certainly NOT due.  She links to two sites:

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/01/preventing-comment-spam.html 

(which sounds like its for programs or site administrators…maybe useful for some)

and

http://tinyurl.com/#redirect

(Which I’m not quite convinced by, but am willing to give a try…)

 

Does anyone else have any suggestsions–proxy sites that can keep "bad" sites from improving their stats?  I’m sure we’ll all seen a need for this sometime in our online activism…

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