blog.outer-court.com — The New York Times website is using a blackhat search engine optimization technique called “cloaking,” which makes a site send different content to the Googlebot as it does to human visitors (a technique Google explicitly frowns upon).
Jun 19, 2006 View in Crawl 4
simpleenigmaJun 20, 2006
As a long term advocate of cloaking I'm surprised something like this hasn't happened sooner. Bottom line is if the web page delivers the same or extremely similar content to both the spider and the end user there shouldn't be a problem. The problem comes from having completely different and unrelated content for the user and the spiders, and shouldn't page rank take care of that?