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All I can say about this is - wow. The German language BMW site has been kicked out of the Google index due to SEO hacks that Google doesn't like - specifically, the use of "doorway pages":
From what it looks like, the German websites of car maker BMW have been kicked out of the Google index. BMW.de at this time has a PageRank of 0. A search for BMW Germany, which only days ago yielded BMW.de as a top result, now doesn’t show any sign of BMW.de at all. Instead, BMW.com BMW’s international site is on top for this search.
There are a lot of marketing departments that will want to pay attention to this.
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