Google smacks BMW
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Topic: Google smacks BMW
Posted By: dpyers
Subject: Google smacks BMW
Date Posted: 10 February 2006 at 1:04am
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4685750.stm - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4685750.stm
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Posted By: Bluefrog
Date Posted: 10 February 2006 at 5:57am
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I heard that a few days ago in The Register or somewhere... I forget... Anyways, I bet some heads are going to roll there. The cloaking was really poor too - javascript redirects... Idiots...
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Posted By: huwnet
Date Posted: 10 February 2006 at 5:25pm
A company like BMW should have a high rank anyway so tricking the searches engines is really unessecary  Popular php script wordpress had this happen to them a while ago: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/03/31/196220 |
Posted By: dpyers
Date Posted: 10 February 2006 at 9:15pm
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The problem wasn't them turning up first when people searchd for "BMW" apparently they were cloaking pages that turned up in a search for "used cars" and the cloaked pages wound up redirecting to the BMW Germany site. Don't really know which sites got slapped down - the cloaked page site or the BMW Germany. I would think it would be BMW Germany. In the US, a search for BMW still puts them on top of the results. -------------
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Posted By: ub3rl337ch3ch
Date Posted: 13 February 2006 at 12:35am
| yeah, its only the german bmw site... |