kaled - 10:14 am on May 19, 2004 (gmt 0)

The basic text content of cloaked and non-cloaked pages should be the same. This can be tested by algo, but it does use CPU power.

It seems to me that all search engines should read a percentage of pages anonymously and perform this cloaking test. The real issue is what do you do when a problem is detected. I don't like the idea of pages being banned automatically by computer algos, but, I suspect, there would be so many pages out there that are cheating, human checking would be impossible.

It's also worth noting that anti-cloaking engines would need to change their IP addresses at least monthly.

Kaled.