Ramping up on international webspam  Remember my previous post
noting that Google would be paying more attention to webspam in
other countries and languages this year? This week our webspam
team continued ramping up our anti-spam efforts by removing
bmw.de from our index, and ricoh.de will be removed soon for
similar reasons.  When a search engine visited a page like
www.bmw.de/bmw-neuwagen.html, it would see a page like this:
example 1: Search Engine view  However, a user’s browser would
immediately trigger a JavaScript redirect to a completely
different url which looked like this:  example 2: user view
That’s a violation of our webmaster quality guidelines,
specifically the principle of “Don’t deceive your users or
present different content to search engines than you display to
users.”  It appears that at least some of the JavaScript-
redirecting pages have already been removed from bmw.de, which
is very encouraging, but given the number of pages that were
doing JavaScript redirects, I expect that Google’s