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Google spoofing

Try this search on google: "gay adoption statistics". Look closely at the results. You will find dozens of hits on porn sites and "spam" sites.

Now take a look at the pages that Google cached for these sites. You will see innocent-looking pages. Someone is spoofing google.

Take a look at the first site, everythingonweb.net. Now put "everythingonweb.net" into google and use the "contains the term" option to see what you get: thousands of cross-linked pages.

Try "bosh dishwasher" get to a spam site via these guys.

Try "teen smoking statistics"...

What a mess.

Mark D

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That spam technique is called "cloaking". Spammers serve a different version of their pages to Google spiders. I have read that Google will act (manually) when cloaking is reported via webmaster [at] google.com.

Now it seem that each cloacking page are banned from google index...

Dont try this, or you'll got banned by Google...

dan:

That spam technique is called "cloaking".

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