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From: Alastair Campbell
Date: May 2, 2007 11:10AM

Patrick Lauke wrote:
> There is no evidence
> to suggest this. There is also no evidence to suggest that
> Googlebot and similar crawlers actively analyse a page and
> its CSS to try to divine if something is hidden or not

Chris Heilmann was on the receiving end of something similar:
http://www.wait-till-i.com/index.php?p=360

I've also heard they have hired people to built a CSS parser, and this
would be an obvious use of it.

Not that I think hiding skip links will be an issue, but for larger
potions of text I suspect it would be.

A rule such as "ignore within-page hidden links" in the parser would be
very simple to include.

Kind regards,

-Alastair

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