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A Danish company provided the daily allowance of raised eyebrows for its claim of offering undetectable cloaking techniques.

As the cliché goes on Fark, someone didn’t think their cunning plan all the way through.

Google’s Matt Cutts told a new tale of “undetectable webspam” being spun in Denmark. No more languishing in the dregs of search results, thanks to this approach, ho ho.

Their claim held up about as well as Yahoo’s merchant servers did on Cyber Monday (ie, not very well). Shortly after uncovering the unnamed Danish company’s claims, Matt and another Googler quickly found some problems with their puffed-up stance:

That’s right, someone hasn’t configured their “undetectable” cloaking script correctly. The errors that the script is spewing out give absolute file paths and much more info. Digging into the details mentioned in the error messages quickly leads you to more domains. So much for that cloaking being undetectable. By the way, this cloaking script has been producing highly noticeable errors like this for almost two months.

The undetectable cloaking had been tossing out easily detectable errors with helpful descriptions and the word “cloaking” displayed prominently. Hey Danish webcloaking company? You’re doing it wrong.

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