Google and BMW
Google has given bmw.de a page rank of zero (meaning it is not going to appear on the first pages of a search) because bmw.de has used a trick called doorway pages. What BMW did was to use text based pages that redirect to the normal bmw.de web site, which site relies on javascript code that is not searchable by Google. The content was basically the same, so I don’t think it is really cheating.
Google is taking a dangerous way these last times, accepting censorship for Google China, and acquiring 5% stake in AOL “fuelling fears of preferential treatment for AOL within Google searches” as BBC said.
Also Google said that it will help AOL to get better search ranks for their contents in Google. Are they going to tell AOL to use doorway pages???
More on this here.
(posted by Aymeric)