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Google Delists BMW-Germany

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the wild-wild-west-of-internet-search dept.

Raenex writes "The car maker BMW has had its German website bmw.de delisted from Google. The delisting was punishment for using deceptive means to boost page ranking, which has now been set to zero for BMW. Matt Cutts, a Google employee who works to stop unethical search manipulation, originally reported the delisting in his blog and suggests that camera maker Ricoh is not far behind."

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  1. Re:Blog Link by dotgain · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Kinda takes the streamlining out of the Copy, Paste process though, doesn't it?

    They're both under the "Edit" menu, hence "Editor".

    Sheesh.

  2. Re:Blog Link by MikeWasHere05 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Slightly offtopic, but...
    His site has the Copyright tag removed off the bottom, he's just using a generic downloadable template from http://beccary.com/goodies/wordpress-themes/
    Now that template also has some similarities to a (continually in construction) site that I've been building at http://mikewashere05.bounceme.net/

    Do we really want this guy trying to teach us moral lessons?

  3. Re:Politics by Yehooti · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I like your stance. If I had mod points you'd get one.

  4. Your sig by Schraegstrichpunkt · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    It is NOT a "MacBook Pro". It is a PowerBook.

    It makes perfect sense. PowerBooks are PowerPC-based; MacBook Pro are Pentium Pro-based. ;-)

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  5. Re:Although this seems "reasonable" in light of th by McFadden · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    "Go suck an egg you fat fuck - you're 300 pounds of donut oil."

    I take it you're quoting the official response from BMW Germany's IT spokesperson.

  6. Re:Although this seems "reasonable" in light of th by fatboyslack · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    *slaps thigh*

    Ooooh, 3 digit UID. Better show some respect to the elderly.

    Dodgy, some sort of Australian colloquialism (I just know that is misspelt).

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