Cloaking is against Google’s webmaster guidelines, it is when you show Google one thing and the user a different thing.
Daily Motion is cloaking specifically for Google and the reason is not that clear. Why would a huge video site be playing games like this?
A Google Webmaster Help thread has one user upset Google is showing a video in their search results after the video was removed from Daily Motion.
The issue is, Daily Motion is telling Google the video is actually there.
John Mueller of Google said that Daily Motion is cloaking and what they are doing is simply not right towards the users and their guidelines. John wrote:
It is pretty amazing that Daily Motion is showing all those old video details here. Are they doing it on purpose or was this some sort of bug?
Finally, will Google take action?
Forum discussion at Google Webmaster Help.
Update: Dailymotion sent me a technical explanation for what happened:
