WebGuerrilla - 5:55 am on Jan 23, 2002 (gmt 0)

>>http://directory.google.com/Top/Society/Issues/Business/Allegedly_Unethical_Firms/Ezula/

Another thing Google could do to help the cause would be to restore the PageRank of the 9 sites in that category so that they may show up in Google SERPS :)

I have not used one of these scripts, but my understanding is that these programs are fairly easy to sniff out. Certainly there is a chunk of surfers who disable JavaScript, but even if you only caught half of them, you would still catch a lot. Probably more in a day than all the current sites would catch in a month. Plus, Google has the added benefit of being a site that people visit regularly. If I'm out surfing the web and I come across a small site that tells me I need to unistall a piece of software in order to access the content, the odds are that I'll simply leave.

On the otherhand, if I showed up at my favorite search engine to search for some new MP3's and I was told that the program I downloaded and installed the night before is now preventing me from searching, I'll probably take the time to remove it.