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Yahoo Autos Caught Cloaking

seroundtable.com — Tim Mayer of Yahoo! has confirmed on May 22nd edition of The Daily Search Cast that Yahoo Autos has changed the page since this has been reported. So, Yahoo Autos was cloaking.

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  • Zasxer, on 10/11/2007, -2/+8It's completely unbelievable that the "virtuous" Yahoo would cloak.
    It just goes to show that even the big guys will be creative for their own purposes!
    • nextman, on 10/11/2007, -2/+7you forgot the sarcasm tag.

      /obvious
    • arcticblue, on 10/11/2007, -1/+16Don't give these guys ad revenue for stories that aren't theirs. Actual story is here: http://www.agerhart.com/seo-rankings/yahoo-caught-cloaking-will-they-ban-themselves/
    • diggcopblowme, on 10/11/2007, -2/+1holy ***** what a boring article.
    • Burento, on 10/11/2007, -3/+1Ad Revenue.. Their are no clickable ads...

      However i do see Adsense on your site. What a jaded attempt at a hijack.. wow.

      Funny you would even lash out at the source considering your involvment in the industry. Especially since there is an link to your site.
      Clearly your frustrated you could not manage to market your post good enough to get visibility.

    • automotiveag, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1burento,

      That's a lame comment. I wasn't the one that posted the link. If anything I'm grateful that seroundtable.com got the article more exposure by getting it onto the Digg homepage.

      Might want to actually look at the profile of the person that posted the link before submitting your lame ass comments.
    • Burento, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3My bad man.. I apologize. I was shocked myself and i didnt check first before spouting off so i am sorry about that.
    • automotiveag, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1No worries....thanks for responding.
  • 7of7, on 10/11/2007, -8/+4So...I don't see anything wrong with that.
  • seguru, on 10/11/2007, -0/+8You might not find anything wrong with it, until you find a domain of yours that gets banned by Yahoo for doing the very same thing they just got caught doing. You might have an issue then. lol
  • ryanmm, on 10/11/2007, -4/+22sorry if i sound like a newb but what is cloaking and why is it bad?
    • tico24, on 10/11/2007, -0/+14to quote the article: "Cloaking is when a search bot is given one page of content, while a normal user is given another set of content."
    • BigManOnCampus, on 10/11/2007, -5/+4Hrm... search bot given one page different from what the user gets... huh? What is the effect/advantage of that?
    • Burento, on 10/11/2007, -1/+9"Hrm... search bot given one page different from what the user gets... huh? What is the effect/advantage of that?"

      Rankings my friend..
    • Eccohawk, on 10/11/2007, -0/+8Essentially, it allows web sites to skew search results by claiming (on the cloaked page) to contain content that they don't really have (on the user page). So you or I do a search for that content and we get a results listing on google or yahoo that shows the offending site as # 2 instead of where they should be, down around # 40 or 400...
  • Kinneas12, on 10/11/2007, -4/+2What's cloaking? Something to do with allowing search engines to grab your page?
    • Burento, on 10/11/2007, -1/+6to quote the article: "Cloaking is when a search bot is given one page of content, while a normal user is given another set of content."
    • Phil246, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2cloaking is the act of showing search engine crawlers one page, and your users another. the page you show search engine crawlers may adhere to some rules to give them a good search index rating but the one your users see can be as nefarious as you want
    • solemnraven, on 10/11/2007, -4/+3Deja Vu?


      again?
    • tize, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Essentially, it allows web sites to skew search results by claiming (on the cloaked page) to contain content that they don't really have (on the user page). So you or I do a search for that content and we get a results listing on google or yahoo that shows the offending site as # 2 instead of where they should be, down around # 40 or 400...
  • esourcemag, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6Well... this is interesting.
  • Smegzor, on 10/11/2007, -5/+2Ya who?

    I never use them anyway.
  • blaket, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7Hmmm, and here I thought that only Romulans and Klingons had cloaking technology!
  • mykool, on 10/11/2007, -4/+2 I've got a cloak It's a bit of a joke. There's a tear up the front It's red and black I've had it for months.
  • thekeggerman, on 10/11/2007, -6/+2I know this is shameless self promotion but if you are selling your car you should try this new site http://www.66trader.com.

    It's completely free for private sellers.
  • TWill, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5Yahoo casts a +15 cloak of deception.
  • totorototoro, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Can't wait to see the Yahoo Web 2.0 apologists explain it..will be watching Techmeme to see how they spin it.
  • WilliamDavis, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5This is stupid.

    So, Yahoo wants to coak and the best they can do is user agent cloaking? Uhhh, like they can't get an updated list of slurp IP addresses?

    I don't know what to make of it, but if cloaking is really their goal, then they suck at it.
  • unitedkronos, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Whoops, wrong story.
  • snakeman01, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0yes they also own a website called http://www.convertiblehire.com which cloaks car content too
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