German BMW Banned From Google

" 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 doesnt show any sign of BMW.de at all. Instead, BMW.com BMWs international site is on top for this search.

The reason for the ban is likely to be that the BMW websites have been caught employing a technique used by black-hat search engine optimizers: doorway pages. German and international bloggers last week were quick to spread the news ... "

http://blog.outer-court.com/archive/2006-02-04-n60.html