"The car maker BMW has had its German website bmw.de delisted from Google. The delisting was punishment for using deceptive means to boost page ranking, which has now been set to zero for BMW. Matt Cutts, a Google employee who works to stop unethical search manipulation, originally reported the delisting in his blog and suggests that camera maker Ricoh is not far behind."

http://www.pocket-lint.co.uk/news.php?newsId=2404


Well that isn't the way to boost positive customer name recognition! :impatient

 

Tsk tsk, for shame BMW. Strange that they would even want/need to resort to shady means to impact search engine results.