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No. Returning different content to Googlebot is a technique called cloaking. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloaking

Probably worth reading this: http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!category-topic/webma...

They'll accept geo-targeted or mobile vs desktop optimised content, but everything else is a grey area.




That talks about using progressive enhancement as the primary approach to building websites.




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