4eyes - 5:22 pm on May 11, 2002 (gmt 0)

Think they don't know that?

If they just choose to hit a shortlist of sites in the database and ignore your regular submissions (like so many do already) your spider traps aren't in the game.

The cloak test spidering can be run idependantly from normal spidering and if they deliberately limit it to a small section of the sites in the domain by the time your spider traps are triggered a large number of your other sites could have been decloaked.

But this is still just over simplification - if they want to automate cloaking detection they can do it.

The question should be 'why aren't they already doing it energetically'?

The answer might be 'Because many of their major sponsors sites use cloaking extensively'