Wednesday, September 22, 2004

Cloaking Gone Mainstream - discussion of definitions of cloaking

Cloaking Gone Mainstream

Inktomi, for example, states: If the purpose is to serve alternate pages to different human users, based on locality, browser, machine type etc., we do not consider that cloaking.
What Inktomi Considers Unwanted cloaking
Some, but not all, examples of the more common types of pages that Inktomi does not want include:
... Pages that give the search engine a different page than the public sees (cloaking)

dannysullivan Quote" I spoke to Inktomi yesterday for the articles on this subject that I posted today. They agreed that XML feeds technically are cloaking. They also said that what is cloaking has changed so much because of the new technologies over the year. They are planning to go back and revise their guidelines to try and better explain what type of cloaking they don't like."



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