Did you know? Google.com is a cloaked page.

[BostonGuy]

Has anyone ever looked at Google.com as a user vs. a bot? Take a look and you might find something interesting...

Static links are added for bots, but hidden for users. Amazon and others use to do this years ago, but have since cleaned it up (for the most part). I assume they stopped because they felt Google might penalize them for it.

Do you think Google is violating their own guidelines?

[dethfire]

of course, but they make the rules

[JD_Toims]

No, they're "gracefully upgrading" when JavaScript is available, or "gracefully degrading" when it's not, depending on your perspective -- Many sites do it. In fact, it's a "best practice" for usability -- They show the same content to the end user either way, so it's different source code, but not different content, which means: It's not cloaked. It's accessible.

[lucy24]

Is it coded as paired <script> and <noscript> forms?