xBlog: The visual thinking weblog
9th February 2006

LiveSurface

“Visualize and present your flat designs on photo-realistic surfaces in minutes, using Photoshop. Introducing the LiveSurface Image Library from Shift: a set of high-resolution royalty-free comping images with pre-masked layers and Vanishing Point planes. Finally: creating presentation-ready, photographically-rendered images with your flat artwork is simple and accurate.” (Thanks swissmiss!)

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9th February 2006

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 doesn’t show any sign of BMW.de at all. Instead, BMW.com — BMW’s 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.”

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