title: How does Google Know you are Cloaking?
body: <p>I can't seem to find any information on how google determines if you are <a href="http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&amp;answer=66355" rel="nofollow noreferrer">cloaking</a> your content.  How, from a technical standpoint, do you think they are determining this?  Are they sending in things other than the googlebot and comparing it to the googlebot results?  Do they have a team of human beings comparing?  Or can they somehow tell that you have checked the user agent and executed a different code path because you saw "googlebot" in the name?</p>
  
  <p>It's in relation to this question on <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1878193/legitimate-url-cloaking-for-seo">legitimate url cloaking for seo</a>.  If textual content is exactly the same, but the rendering is different (1995-style html vs. ajax vs. flash), is there really a problem with cloaking?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks for your put on this one.</p>