Campaign to get webmasters to post concerns to Google is under way.
The route for filling out a Google "contact us" form is as follows:
Sing into your Google account then go to Help Centre, and put "legal" into the search box, (All Google Help) then choose the option "how can I inform Google about a legal matter?" and then choose the options "contact us" at the top of the next page, then choose "Report a legal matter" and "Google's Trademark" which will result in a Contact Us form (not easy to find Contact Forms on Google!).
Then tell them about Phorm and how Phorm are equating themselves with Google and using Google robots.txt declarations to imply consent from webmasters, and that you may have to consider blocking Google from your site as that seems to be the only way of blocking Phorm according to the statements that BT and Phorm have made in public (and also the ones they have declined to make, like declaring a user agent, or declaring how Phorm/Webwise may be banned via robots.txt.
Indicate that you feel this may damage their business model.
I haven't posted links as it is a signed-in site, so my links probably wouldn't work.
And do post on the blogs along with me and jelv.
http://groups.google.com/group/Googl...90386b9ad852d0
and don't forget to rank our posts if you agree with them.
This is a timely moment to be raising the "webmaster concerns" profile of Webwise with Google management and also Google Webmaster Tools users.