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3/10/2005

Google Cloaking? Are they playing down now?

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— goodgirl @ 3:08 am

Threadwatch has a discussion going about Google Cloaking their adwords page. You can’t do it but maybe they are.

A short while ago, Threadwatch member Adam_C discovered what for all appearances seems to be Google pulling dirty SEO tactics on it’s own pages and thus going against it’s own guidelines in an effort to rank highly within it’s own results.

Cloaking
Cloaking is covered in Google’s guidelines as something strictly not to do:

Full post here:
http://www.threadwatch.org/node/1774

Have they been caught? Are they trying to cover it up now? They are denying it now at BetaNews.
So do you think Google does use cloaking? Feel free to comment here.

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Google Cloaking? Are they playing down now?

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