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Hiding references to a conference (when testimony said no promotions occurring) and using unnecessarily circuitous language (which results in low search engine scores which puts such pages into obscurity).


In Japan, you see a bunch of Japanese that you don't see translated in View USA. That's because there is white text against a white background. Below is the hidden text which, you must admit, is quite poetic:

* The July this year of severe heat, at Tokyo international forum it received favorable comment, " the Fujitsu solution forum 2002 " keeping more and more, full in Osaka it is held. * It introduces the place where the advanced match and the concrete solution of Fujitsu which is directed to broadband * Internet age are left without.

This reference to July 2002 may be poor poetry, but clever premeditation. The poetry is to frustrate search engine searches (Google has 91,600 hits for: Fujitsu conferences July 2002). That's poetry put to a really special use!


Inside the HTML code are the following offending lines of code:

  1. <!-- .search {color: #333333; background: #FFFFFF} -->

  2. <FONT color="#FFFFFF"> <FONT color="#FFFFFF">

Line #1 is explained as an argument to trigger the substitution of color #333333 (Fujitsu's default text color, a near-black) in the event Java's history function shows that the visitor has arrived via a search engine.

Line #2 is the substituted code which redundantly repeats the white text specification. This may be to distinguish it from a coding error.

When the .css (the style sheet coding reference) is deleted, the white text appears normally. From this we deduce that the style sheets are driving the subterfuge.

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