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To be clear, by possible, I really meant is it really possible to keep the stuff off the net. Shut down one site, another pops up in its place. And then there are jurisdictional questions - lot of offshore servers out there. It's like plugging a hole in a damn, and another one opens up.

SEO is open to everyone. We use it at my firm website - in fact, we hired a consultant to help with it. If we're going to consider SEO as being nefarious then we're really reaching.

I dunno, syd seems to think the government is using SEO to bury some sites. I didn't bring it up!

No, I'm saying SEO would be a good way for NASA/govt/mil/JREF/fanbois to bury hoax claim sites, especially when they're quite old, stale and unmaintained. There's a new wave of internet technology out every couple of years, after all, and it's hard to keep up.

It's legal, it's easy, and it's cheap. It might also be possible to 'influence' google in ways 'serving the national interest' to directly push things down also, which is more nefarious.

For instance, whenever a new 'magical substance' comes out for weight loss or as a super food (acai berries, hoodia, etc), or whatever, and you type '<magical substance> review' into google to suss it out, I've noted you sometimes get up to 10 pages of near-identical 'review' sites or advertising sites with pretty much the same copy on all of them, and no other genuine independent reviews whatsoever. Internet scammers have worked out that if they generate hundreds of fake one page websites and reviews all over forums etc they can drown out any real criticism, and make it look as though there's a rich lode of material and their product is legit and works as they claim it does. True sceptics, of course, will be just as sceptical of claims about new wonder supplements etc as they should be about other dubious claims such as landing on the moon. Anyhow, I don't see why NASA/gov/mil/JREF/fanbois wouldn't have realised this by now and started using such techniques very cheaply to bury opposing voices.

Is everything clear now? good, thank you. wonderful thread idea, by the way, I love what you've done with the curtains too.

If the government can take down any site it wants, how come it can't take down PirateBay or torrent sites or Wikileaks?

And these sites are not hosted in the US.