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I am an investor and believe in ROI being champion, I am not saying that I dont agree with the idea of Internet Utopia..(nobody cheats) but thats not pragmatic now is it.
My Co. has invested in creating an excellent website but the internet is the worlds largets monopolistic market place where competition thrives.
But cloaking gives you that added edge..I can get a cloaked page to the top of a search term that based on ROI I can recover my intial investment and earn a substantial profit.
It is the reality that others are doing it and succeed. Im not saying that this makes it right but cloaking to protect code is only an excuse..I intend to investigate this more after 24 months of my site being up and see exactly where the SE's have gotten in solving this problem.
Doe anyone share my view would the internet be so big if it was not driven by E-Commerce and would it even be existent. Im sure it wouldn't so what is the big deal.
Companies that are Machiavellian (by any means neccessary) in there goals will suceed. Its not illegal "YET" but what should we the Good Guys Do.
'Cloaking is a good concept you just have to do it well and have all your bases covered. What do you guys think the view on cloaking is going to be in the next 10 Years..(It will be a thing of the past 'you techies get smarter by the minute)NON-EXISTANT thats what I say, so why not utilize it to your benefit now.
Thoughts anyone.
What do you guys think the view on cloaking is going to be in the next 10 Years
There won't be one -- currently cloackers survive due to:
1) most popular search engines have known IP addresses: this is fairly easy to solve
2) most popular search engines don't "cloak" their user-agent to see if they get served other content than the one their robots gets (correct me if I am wrong here). This is easy to fix, just requires desire and solution to #1.
3) robots lack behind in knowing what a page is really doing (ie they can't catch sneaky javascript that writes real data people see). Now this is a hard problem, but as CPU power becomes cheaper it will be solved.... perhaps well enough to understand most simple constructs and give lower priority to other pages.
4) Finally its all about influence -- as soon as cloackers or link farmers or whoever cross the line they should get relevant attention and solution one way or another can be found.
It would be a better world when sites will be judged by their content, now their ability to "optimise it" using cloacking.
