Does anyone know about a site with working proxies, cause the 'google' ones are not working?

http://www.samair.ru/proxy/

this may be a little off topic, but an alternative for using a proxy can be found here: JAP - University of Dresden
Alas, it runs a little slow (as most proxies).

this brings up a question I've had for a logn time, what is a proxy, such as the one you are talking of, and what does it do?

It's basicly a server you connect to the you use as a host

eg. If you are 69.123.1.95 and you connect to a Proxy-server @ 201.215.96.114 and visit a website; The IP logged at the website will be 201.215.96.114.....

It acts as a middle-man to put it simple.

As for use of this: Ask the user. Can be used for anything from simply bypassing sites that have blocked your ISP for some reason to more illigal matters.

BUT, the Proxy-host can see both who YOU are, and what you are doing...

I'm using a proxie, because my whole ISP has been banned from deviantart (you can't login)...