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2004-04-28
Aplus.net Admits Cloaking Customer Sites to Improve Search Ranking (External)
Aplus.Net admitted Friday that it had manipulated customer web sites to try and improve its ranking in the Google search engine, inserting "hidden links" that made it appear that more than 17,000 sites were linking to Aplus.net's home page. The technique may have helped Aplus.net achieve a first-place Google ranking for the term "dedicated servers."
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