What is the purpose of cloaking?

[braketech]

Cloaking is used by black hat and it is one of the unethical practices in SEO. It uses the devices that provide deceiving mechanism for the search engines.Cloaking provides the use of false pages that are loaded with the keyword and other content that is search engine optimized

[Randalerarm]

Actually Cloaking is a spam-indexing techniques that is a tricks to search engine giving a relevant website in higher ranking.

[Jeffreyhooft]

Cloaking is a synthetic methods used for boosting rankings and many a time website are penalized by search engine doing this activity.