Spam Document With User Agent Cloaking

I have to say I find it particularly funny when a document about Web Spam from an EDU is using user agent cloaking. A recent document about Web Spam Propoganda and Trust gives a completely different result if you change your user agent to Googlebot (see screen shot below) oh where are those finger wagging white hats when you need them …

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