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Seems the topic of the day is Google searching css files. The theories range from whether Google is searching for hidden text, or whether they are using the files to filter content from navigation. The fact of the matter is, Google is getting more and more sophisticated in determining exactly what a site is about and making things more difficult for the black hats. That doesn’t mean the black hats won’t find a way around the things that Google is doing, it just means only the best black hats will survive. I just hope that Google is taking a cautious approach on how they use the css files. Many designers use css to position the text of their images either off the page or make it invisible so that the text can appear exactly as they had intended. I’m hoping that if the purpose is to detect hidden links or text that Google doesn’t have the dial turned up too high. There are many legitimate reasons to render text invisible or off-page that is not meant to deceive the user OR the crawlers.