Google has delisted BMW's German site from its search engine after they attempted to artificially manipulate their position in Google's ranking. Bmw.co.de now has a search rank of zero, which means that searching for "BMW Germany" will now present the international BMW site instead.
The delisting was reported by Matt Cutts, a software engineer at Google, who works to stop websites tricking the system by featuring hidden text or different content from what the website visitor sees.

In his blog, Cutts wrote that the methods used by BMW were a violation of the search engine's guidelines, and that a second company, camera maker ricoh.de will be removed soon for similar reasons
[Pocket-Lint]