According to an article from ZDnet, Google is using its homepage to hunt Computer Science Students from Standford. When going to Google.com, CS Students apparently can see a text link on the middle of the page that says “Graduating? Come work with us.”
It’s a remarkable way to recruit, and also inexpensive.
[…] Nadir reports on his blog of an article on ZDNet about Google headhunting for Stanford grads. When the Google home page is loaded from a Stanford IP Google serves up an ad offering people to work for them. […]
Left by Irishwonder’s Black Hat SEO Blog » Google cloaking - why can’t we? on February 16th, 2006
So you mean Google is using cloaking? I wonder what their webmaster guidelines say about this…
Left by Pierre on February 18th, 2006
I guess they are
But that kind of cloaking is totally legitimate in my opinion, you could use that on your site without having to worry about anything: for example, display a promotional message for people coming from a specific area of the world- many famous ecommerce sites do that.
Left by Nadir on February 20th, 2006