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    Posted: 10 February 2006 at 1:04am
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4685750.stm

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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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A company like BMW should have a high rank anyway so tricking the searches engines is really unessecary

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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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yeah, its only the german bmw site...
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