Sphinn - YouTube is Cloaking, So why Can’t I?

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Went Hot: May 16, 2008 - 5:57 pm
Posted By: SlightlyShadySEO 413 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.slightlyshadyseo.com)
Category: Google SEO

Recently I figured out that of all sites out there, YOUTUBE is cloaking. Yes, the same YouTube owned by Google. They are cloaking their "mature" videos so that the spiders are caching the real version, but a real visitor is forced to sign up.
In this entry, I talk about the various implications of this ranging from anti-trust to the adult industry.

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from charliemp3 411 days ago # - show/hide this comment

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Thanks for this post. I'm sure they would give a very good reason for doing this and they would have a different term for it other than "cloaking", they're part of Google and they can get away with murder as far as I can tell. It's not do as I do, it's do as I say and as long as they're the top dog no level of critiscism is going to change that.

from sem4u 410 days ago #

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"Cloaking" goes on a lot of the time...just take a sample of stories from Google News...spiders are being shown different things from humans. Ads can be shown or the content can only be read once a visitor has registered with the site.

from SlightlyShadySEO 410 days ago #

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*sigh* I was hoping for a official response on this one. Double standards are ridiculously unfair, and I suspect will someday get Google in trouble. Fighting engrained competition is hard enough, but doing that with Google giving unfair consideration to these other companies (there's SO many double standards like this) it seems ridiculous.