Comments on: Google Bans BMW for Search Spamming

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Fri, 30 May 2008 20:48:28 +0000

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By: Jellyfish » Blog Archive » How Google Profits from Irrelevance

Jellyfish » Blog Archive » How Google Profits from Irrelevance — Thu, 04 May 2006 20:48:08 +0000

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By: Pat Mcgee

Pat Mcgee — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 15:54:51 +0000

Saying that cloaking is ethical is like saying that knives are ethical. It depends how you use them. But they should have known it could very easily get them banned, and for that they are just stupid. Ethics don’t apply.

By: Nicholas Gillard-Byers

Nicholas Gillard-Byers — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 15:25:50 +0000

Even as an atheist, I’m pretty sure the “master rule” of the Ten Commandments would be “I am the Lord thy God” or whatever particular variation people prefer. An especially appropriate commandment given Google’s move here.

By: Mikey

Mikey — Mon, 06 Feb 2006 19:51:01 +0000

I know of alot of big UK companies spamming/cloaking too. The list is pretty big and Google has never done anything about them. Take a look at: http://www.thomascook.com, http://www.Boots.com, http://www.virgincosmetics.com, http://www.mytravel.com, http://www.bradford-bingley.co.uk, http://www.thewhitecompany.co.uk, etc. The list goes on. They’re all hiding content. Check Google’s cache for any of those homepages, select ‘cached text’ and you’ll see exactly what I mean. They’re all the work of an seo agency called Ambergreen who really should be banned right away if Google has any sense.

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