webwhiz - 2:51 pm on Jan 31, 2003 (gmt 0)

We'd prefer to hear what you have to say. If we're not understanding the points in Brett's post that you're disagreeing with, why don't you clear it up for us and explain it to us in your own words.

I kinda thought I did that here:

The gist of it is that the word cloaking is being used for applications that shouldn't really be called cloaking (in Alan's opinion and also in mine). By calling perfectly legitimate things that the engines have no problem with, such as Geographic IP Delivery, it legitimizes the "real" type of cloaking, i.e., the kind where you need to find out the SE bot's IP address so you can feed it something strictly designed for high rankings. It's all about tricking the search engines, as opposed to helping the users. Those other applications are fine. The engines have no problem with them, and they are great for users too. But they're not cloaking, as cloaking is something you do to trick, not help.