BMW falls foul of Google ‘web spam’ rules

[meinthecorner]

Made me laugh

The German website of BMW, the carmaker, has been removed from Google’s search results as part of the web company’s crack down on the manipulation of its search engine.

Google confirmed on Monday that BMW.de had been removed from all search engine results

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[aqls]

Quote from that article:
Mr Hassinger said only 0.4% of visitors came from search engines as most visitors know the address bmw.de or guess it.

Yet Nielsens data show that at least 43% of people use the search bar as if it were the browser address bar.

Quote Nielsen:
Nielsen//NetRatings reports that 43 percent
of online searchers use the search box much like an address bar.

http://www.searchguild.com/redir/o.php?out=http://www.netratings.com/pr/pr_060118.pdf

(that's a .pdf BTW)

Best form of damage limitation?

Lie through your teeth!!

-aqls-

 

[retired_member6]

"Don’t deceive your users or present different content to search engines than you display to users. "

Is that supposed to be in English?

 

[meinthecorner]

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Thanks for that, very interesting !

DG