Google pardons BMW website

Thu, 9 February 2006

Google has revoked the “death penalty” imposed on BMW’s German website for attempting to artificially boost its popularity ranking on the world’s leading internet search engine.

In a statement posted on his blog today, Google engineer Matt Cutts confirmed that bmw.com.de - which was blacklisted from the Google index on Saturday - had been reinstated.

“I appreciate BMW’s quick response on removing JavaScript-redirecting pages from BMW properties,” he wrote. “The webspam team at Google has been in contact with BMW, and Google has reincluded bmw.de in our index.

Source: www.smh.com.au

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