The most straightforward fix here is to have the redirect pages removed from the index via a robots.txt statement, then trigger a reindexing of the site through Webmaster Tools.Thoughtomator, I don't know WHO you mean to take these steps, each of 300 million internet users in America? or someone who controls the FR web pages? Please clarify.
Alternatively, something can be done with the .htaccess files to take those redirect pages and redirect them to the FR page they are associated with.
While I wouldn’t put political foul play past them, it’s unlikely to be what is going on in this case. This is a technical issue.
As for those who recommended Startpage.com instead of Google.com, I tried Startpage.com, and did not get those warnings, but clicking on those hits took me straight to the redirection pages, and I do not like that.
I would much rather the links take me first to the FR page, and if I wish to do so, I can click on the redirection page myself that is listed in the FR Page.
The proposed fix is something John or Jim can do in about 5-10 minutes. Nobody else can do anything about it.
My post #17 above gives the technical details of what should be done.
I personally use DuckDuckGo as my main search engine, though I have to admit that Google often gives better results, especially if I have a complicated search to perform.
Just to be clear I outlined two separate potential fixes. The first is a 5-minute job, but the second could be quite a bit of work, so I wouldn’t recommend the second route unless the first route did not work.
It should work, but it’s a bit of an unusual situation since the first fix is actually a bit of a kludge that takes advantage of the fact that the forward slash delimits directories and is also used in URLs with “http:// “.
I’d give the easy way about an 80% chance of working, otherwise there’s probably a full day’s work in dealing with it through .htaccess using the second solution.
There are other potential solutions as well but they are also labor-intensive.
Changing robots.txt or adding .htaccess files are both webmaster functions.
Once upon a time, if you clicked an article link, a brief reminder that you were going to an external site would appear. Then it would redirect you to the site. Example. Google would follow those spurious links, adding useless entries to its index. Apparently, it's algorithms now consider such redirect links to be not just useless, but suspicious. Hence the warnings.
The solution is to adjust robots.txt to not follow those links and then request a re-indexing (also a webmaster function).
Good rebuttal points. Thanks.