Google Cloaking

The aff sites are still fram­ing my site, and the num­ber of hits and amount of band­width is cer­tainly not decreas­ing with time (details at pre­vi­ous posts, if you want to catch up on the story). I’m still not entirely sure what they’re doing, but the script they use (if you fetch the pages with a com­mand-line tool) has spe­cif­ic instruc­tions for Google and oth­er search engines, so there’s obvi­ously some reas­on for that.

As far as I can tell, this is a clas­sic cloak­ing attack, and, to quote Wiki­pe­dia as of the time I read the art­icle, “major search engines con­sider cloak­ing for decep­tion to be a viol­a­tion of their guidelines, and there­fore, they del­ist sites when decept­ive cloak­ing is repor­ted”. So I figured that was worth a try and filled out the form at Report a Spam Res­ult (for your enter­tain­ment, the search query I put in was “adul riendfinder.com”, which illus­trates the prob­lem nicely).

Has any­one else ever tried this and have it work? Any hints? I sub­mit­ted the form over a week ago, and have seen no res­ults yet. I thought I’d try with Google first since they gen­er­ally are quick at updat­ing their indices (they were cer­tainly quick­er at flush­ing the hack­ing res­ults than Yahoo).