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Viper007Bond · #30 10-18-2007, 08:51 AM

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Originally Posted by jmw

This can get you banned from Google. It appears to be cloaking per original hack explanation.

Honestly, I'm not sure which side of the line it falls on as it only applies to users incoming from a search engine.

It's not as if it's detecting the bot's user agent and then displaying different content to the search bot in an attempt to change page rank or whatever.

It's simply redirecting to the real thread when the archive is found via a search engine. If you directly browse to the archive, it won't do any redirecting.

So personally, I don't think Google would have a problem with this. Then again, I can't speak for Google.

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