Cutts’ blog
posting also said that Ricoh.de would be removed from Google’s index soon for similar reasons. In mid-January, Cutts wrote in his blog that he was offering a courtesy notice to designers of non-English language sites that starting in 2006 Google would be paying closer attention to tricks that go against Google’s guidelines.
A Google spokesperson confirmed:
- via e-mail that the BMW.de site h
- as been removed but would not com
- ment further on the specific case, adding
- that Google cannot tolerate sites that try t
- o manipulate search results.

Cutts wrote that he expects that Google’s Web spam team will require a re-inclusion request including details on who created the misleading pages before BMW.de is included in the database again. He said that some of the offending pages had already been removed.