I’ve got to get out of this job!
Couldn’t sleep last night - this Yahoo! cloaking thing was on my mind - will Google punish me for linking to a “bad neighbourhood”? 
Anyone working within the search engine optimisation industry must surely take notice of Google’s Webmaster Guidelines, this is where the search giant lays down the law on what is acceptable and what is unacceptable and mentions two things in particular that are relevant to this situation:
1) “avoid links to web spammers or “bad neighborhoods”
2) “Don’t employ cloaking or sneaky redirects.”
This definately makes Yahoo! a bad neighborhood - and I linked to it! Bugger!
I’ve always thought that linking to relevant sections of the major search engines, Wikipedia and the Open Directory Project helped my readers more clearly understand the backdrop against which we work and showed us working in the spirit of the web - err, I was wrong…
Funnily enough, I remember a similar situation a few years ago when Microsoft was also caught with its pants down. The pages are long gone now, but the incident is still well documented on a few of the search engine forums, like cre8asiteforums, webproworld.com and ihelpyou. Oops! I’ve given Dougie a link - will that come back one day to bite me on the bum? 
I must like living dangerously - linking to these bad neighborhoods - maybe I’ll take up bull riding as a new career 
