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which should — in theory — get them penalized for cloaking. But obviously it doesn’t. Reinforcing GP’s point.
by gingerlime 3y ago
which should — in theory — get them penalized for cloaking. But obviously it doesn’t. Reinforcing GP’s point.
- NavinF 3y agoGoogle has gotten pretty lenient about that: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/essentials/spam-policies#cloaking https://developers.google.com/search/docs/essentials/spam-po... "If you operate a paywall or a content-gating mechanism, we don't consider this to be cloaking if Google can see the full content of what's behind the paywall just like any person who has access to the gated material and if you follow our Flexible Sampling general guidance." I wonder if they just gave up
- post-it 3y agoHypothesis: Search, being Google's oldest product, is no longer prestigious to work in. It's in maintenance mode.
- zerkten 3y agoDoes Google run other indexers for the purposes of catching cloaking? Are there other strategies that can be used? One of the problems of SO is that most of the valid content is out there and easily available without having to scrape the site which may mean penalizing for bad content is harder.