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Google Bumps BMW's Website to Zero PR

Feb 7th, 2006 - Subscribe
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Google Bumps BMW's Website to Pagerank 0
Founded by Frost

Introduction
Looking around I found this interesting article. Google effectifley bumped BMS's pagerank to 0 (zero) for using unethical search engine optimization tactics to get it's site listed higher on search engine results. Here is the article:

Google hands BMW its 'death sentence'
Created By: Will Sturgeon

Google has handed out one of its most effective punishments to BMW amid allegations the German car manufacturer was abusing techniques for boosting its position in search engine results.

The search giant has wiped out BMW's Google ranking on its domestic website, effectively demoting its website's presence on the internet, although Google declined to comment on the precise reasons why this action was taken...

Full Article: Google hands BMW its 'death sentence'

Comments: 3

Comments:

indie-guy
on February 07th, 2006

haha i heard about this.
now they should start doing it to the other sites that use this method.

frost
on February 07th, 2006

Yea on top of that BMW is talking to google about using their Map software in their new navigation systems...

--FrosT

david
on February 08th, 2006

Yes this situation happened to bmw.de. But if you do a search, they have now been forgiven.