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I’ve just finished putting the final touches to a new WordPress plugin that blocks comments being displayed in Google’s new SideWiki tool.

You can download the plugin here. Just unzip and copy up to your /wp-content/plugins/ directory.

Once activated it works. To stop it, simply unactivate the plugin.

The plugin is simply a wrapper for the Javascript code that Steve Diamond wrote (http://stevediamondconsulting.com/), you can download the code at :

http://code.google.com/p/sidewiki-defeat/, or use it straiught from Google’s own site. I prefer having it on my own hosting as it “might go missing” on google’s hosting

There’s a lot of concern about Google’s new SideWiki “module” that comes bundled with the latest version of the Google Toolbar.

You may be wondering, “If I’m doing nothing wrong, what have I got to worry about?”

A good questions, but it wouldn’t take much for your competitors to leave “bad” comments about your website, and as well as dropping links to other peoples websites. (more…)