Phillip brought up a good point recenlty. Why is Google playing favorites with some sites?
As part of the Google’s webmaster guidelines policy, a webmaster is not allowed to display something different to search engines than to the visitor. But this is exactly what WebmasterWorld.com does for every single page. You search for something and see a WMW result, such as here, but when you visit the page, it’s a login page.
So then the question arrises: how would Google know what that page has if the search engine can’t see inside the page? Google does seem to favor some sites more and doesn’t penalize that specific site for cloaking.
So if Google bends the rules on this policy, what other policies is Google willing to fudge on?
