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RE: BMW busted by Google. - 2/7/2006 12:04:10
BMW has already been assured they will be reincluded within 30 days.
Was this a screw up by a highly visible company or it was a brilliant marketing ploy? Their site has been making the news and countless sites have been linking to them since this story broke 5 days ago. I bet their site becomes stronger in the SERPs when this is all said and done.
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RE: BMW busted by Google. - 2/7/2006 12:19:29
The technique often works very well, but on a site like BMW you will have too many people 'looking under the hood' so to speak. Tricky things will be discovered. I still think it may have been planned out. Wordpress.org sort of set the standard - SPAM 100,000 pages > get banned > claim it was a misunderstanding > Google lets them back in.... oh, I forgot... pocket all the extra money you made until you got caught.
It seems that large, popular sites don't have much need to fear. They will get a slap on the wrist and reincluded.
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RE: BMW busted by Google. - 2/7/2006 13:54:19
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ORIGINAL: spitfire
[1] or rather. I am bl***y sure he said, prior to judicious edit, perhaps?
Afirm
And engine-wise - nothing beats the sound of a Merlin...
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RE: BMW busted by Google. - 2/8/2006 13:08:48
Well, I look for a test case some day in this type of ruling by Google. When they use the term "Illegal" who says it's illegal? There's no law against it. There's a policy at Google which because on their market position has the ability to affect the profit of businesses. This would seem to give them "insider" type influence that they acquire by setting their own rules and changing them as they see fit.
Government officials who pass real laws are elected to office by the citizens but these people operate without any controls on their actions.
I'm no lawyer but this sure seems like an opening for someone who has the money to challange.
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RE: BMW busted by Google. - 2/8/2006 15:46:21
About half of the P-51's made used RR. I hadn't heard that the Spitfire did.
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RE: BMW busted by Google. - 2/8/2006 15:50:47
I checked and you're right .. the Spitfire used one twelve-cylinder, liquid-cooled Rolls-Royce Merlin 45 of 1,470 hp.
Good call!
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RE: BMW busted by Google. - 2/8/2006 16:37:16
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Good call!
More of a good guess actually.
And the Mustangs were made right around the corner from where I grew up. It became the Westinghouse building, was later abandoned for years, and is now part of the tarmac for the Buffalo international airport.
My dad was in aerospace for years, and I build model planes and such from time to time.
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RE: BMW busted by Google. - 2/8/2006 17:24:15
The Spitfires used Rolls Royce Merlin engines originally (Griffons later on) along with Hurricanes, Lancasters and Mosquitos.
The RAF at the beginning of WWII were short of fighters and started making some Mustangs under licence but found that the Mustang's Allison engine was really underpowered so they fitted the Merlin - along with a better cockpit canopy. This gave the Mustang much better performance and the US started inserting Merlins into all their Mustangs.
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RE: BMW busted by Google. - 2/9/2006 11:11:31
We should do more flag waving. Unfortunately if anyone in this country tries waving a Union Flag they're immediately accused of being imperialist pigs or worse.
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