It looks like Google's index has been taken over by a man in the middle proxy scheme.  Search Google using google.com/search?q=usinfonow.com and google.com/search?q=stackexchange+usinfonow.com to see some examples.    Programming related queries on Google that would normally show stackoverflow.com pages in the top list of results are now being replaced by the proxy site stackoverflow.usinfonow.com.    How do we prevent this in the future? Any ideas?
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