Google bitchslaps BMW...
 

http://blog.outer-court.com/archive/2006-02-04-n60.html

From what it looks like, the German websites of car maker BMW have been kicked out of the Google index. BMW.de at this time has a PageRank of 0. A search for BMW Germany, which only days ago yielded BMW.de as a top result, now doesn’t show any sign of BMW.de at all. Instead, BMW.com – BMW’s international site – is on top for this search.

The reason for the ban is likely to be that the BMW websites have been caught employing a technique used by black-hat search engine optimizers: doorway pages. German and international bloggers last week were quick to spread the news.

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I see nothing wrong with Google's actions. Or BMW's for that matter. Google has every right to maintain a certain level of hygiene in it's data. If it considers pages designed pages targetted at bots as pollution for search results targetted at humans, so be it. Oh, and BMW can make their webpage what they want it to be. They didn't pay for something that Google took away.

Interesting.

Without actually knowing I'm willing to bet that there are some TOS issues of some sort here.