greek39 wrote:
What is happening is cloaking then scraping. Cloaking is a different version of a web site the cloaked site is a black hatter scraped site. This is done by activex ( active scripting ).
I doubt that he is using activex to do his cloaking. If this were the case, then the googlebot could care less.
Besides, activex is another name for controls which is another name for OLE Controls. OLE allows the embedding of objects within a container (OLE = Object Linking and Embedding). This is a technology which IE allows in it’s browsers which has, in the past (and still on occasion), been expoited. Active scripting is not an accurate name for this as it is a compiled object.
My guess is that Dom is right in that he is forcing cookie creation. There are many reasons to do this, one of which is to make sure that he gets the referral. IE WOULD bark at this.