Air - 4:25 pm on Aug 13, 2002 (gmt 0)

...At the most recent Search Engine Strategies Conference (presented by Danny Sullivan) just about all of the search engine representatives came out and publically stated that as long as the content of the cloaked page was totally on topic, they had no problem with the technology. And the search engine representatives said that they understood that when the technology was used responsibly it could even help them improve the accuracy of their search results...

That quote is probably from a year and a half or so ago, most search engines have done an about face on that stance (at least publically).