What next? Google Blacklists BMW........
 

Good for google.

Google has completely lost it's way.

wonder if its the sign of a major crackdown on everyone. Or is it just to scare the shit out of all the small guys, by making an example of BMW?

googles index is so spammy now

try googling BMW, see what happens. Perhaps they kissed and made up.

well it did say they were in discussions, maybee they talked fast :winkwink:

Money speaks very quickly. :winkwink:

They need to be taken down a notch or two.

"We never comment on the specifics of individual cases but we would stress that the quality of our index and search results is of the utmost importance to Google"

Quality? What quality - they remove BMW for having doorways (which in actual fact may have NOTHING TO DO WITH GOOGLE) - then they say they show "quality".

Google = Crap - and watch your shares.

To many black-hats around. There are more than a few on this board that can thank their sucess to black-hat methods.

One more
"He added the company was in talks with Google and he was confident the site would be reinstated. He said 0.4 percent of traffic to the BMW.de Web site came through Google."

I hardly think BMW should give a flying fuck what a search engine like google think about their site?

I certainly wouldnt be bothered, if I owned BMW, if google fucked the site or kept it on. Google could fuck off basically - BMW will be around long after google has fucked off.

not really, it's about bmw.de, not all of the bmw sites

I am sure there are:1orglaugh

Ban My Website?

holy crap its true - what a bunch of morons

google is running everyone over

It's about time

Why is everyone so shocked? If BMW really tried to swamp the net with doorway pages, they had it coming. It's not the first site banned for doorways, you know. Happens to me all the time, guess that is not newsworthy.

Maybee you are not as well known as BMW ???:1orglaugh
If I see your banning on CNN I'll be sure to post about it:Graucho

The point I was trying to make is that BMW should stop crying and people should stop saying how Google's lost its way and shit. You fuck around with the index, you get canned, sooner or later.

with all due respect, i HIGHLY doubt BMW has anything to cry about :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

Only 0.4 percent ? that's fucking nothing

LOL why..because they banned a site that was obviously trying to cheat?

actualy I recall quite a few over the years :2 cents:

everyone knows to just type in bmw.com their geotargetting will take you to the right page :)

google bans people all the time.

publicity stunt

hundreds of millions in profits ... sounds like they've really lost their way...

in a related news article, bmw said that only 0.4% of their traffic comes from search, most of it is type ins

I doubt they're hurting, except maybe embarassment. bmw will remove the pages, and google will let them back in. simple as that

Wtf are you people whining about. BMW cheated. Google explicitly says not to create fake doorway pages for the SE. Please noobs go home.

Thank you. And if only.

Some people on this board seem to spend their lives looking up and waiting for the sky to fall ...

yeah right..as simple as that!!!

Google attacks! This is their moment.