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g1smd - 9:09 pm on Feb 10, 2006 (gmt 0)
They said that "Google had its page rank reduced to zero" not that "the site had been delisted". There is a world of difference. The BBC also has a direct link to the BMW site now, and so have thousands of other sites that would not have linked otherwise.
I see that the BBC journalists got it wrong again (as usual).