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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. No, Google is only dictating how you Do No Evil. by Anpheus · · Score: 1, Redundant

    This is completely ridiculous. For the vast majority of legitimate web pages, this will change, affect absolutely nothing. For those few major websites that do break the terms of service, then there will be consequences. This is barely a slap on the wrist, BMW's site is still accessable, try this: Google Query: BMW. See, BMW's site is still acceptable from Deutschland. Now, quit whining.

  2. Sound reasoning by sjonke · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Or at least I think so. I tried to research this topic by googling for "search engine fraud", but I think google was on the fritz, as all it ever found was "Cudly panda bears" and "A9.is.a.steaming.pile.of.shit.com"

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