How does an agent recognize cloaking and then decide not to save a finding based on it?
littleman
5:32 pm on Jan 9, 2001 (gmt 0)
Mousemoves, I'm not sure I am following you. Are you asking how spiders could crack cloaking?
PeteU
7:50 pm on Jan 9, 2001 (gmt 0)
Mousemoves, properly done cloaking cannot be distinguished by regular spidering. However if a search engine decides to recognize cloaking they can do that by sending a spider from an unknown ip number and with a plain mozilla user agent followed by a regular spider. Each would get a different page then. Still many non-cloaking sites output different pages depending on surfer's browser, ip region etc. So while SE's can detect page discrepancies using above method they still cannot be sure whether it is cloaking or a browser optimized site, unless of course a human looks at it.
mousemoves
3:25 am on Jan 10, 2001 (gmt 0)
thank you. your response raises more questions for me, but i should read some more beforehand. ::-)
mousemoves
4:43 am on Jan 10, 2001 (gmt 0)
how is it possible then to get your ip "banned" from the engine database? ----------------------------> is it just because of the usual, like too many repeating keywords? B:-)
Air
5:43 am on Feb 9, 2001 (gmt 0)
Yes mousemoves, the same things that would get you banned without cloaking will also get you banned with cloaking. The search engine gets the cloaked page, so it is subject to the same spam filters as any regular non cloaked page that is submitted and/or spidered.
