Google really should publicly explain their stance on this - their (and other search engines') role in the internet is just far too important for it to be left to some internal policy.<p>I would advocate some form of regulation of this type of thing - but the chances of us ending up with something worse than the status quo is probably a bit high.
I can't believe they are capable of manually inserting a disclaimer for Michelle Monkey, but not of manually lowering the rank of Michelle Monkey. (if(!"monkey" in keywords) {results["monkey"]["rank"] -= 100})