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Odd Google redirect notice

Philipp Lenssen [PersonRank 10]

Thursday, September 25, 2008
15 years ago4,990 views

I just searched for [dragon's lair] on google.com and when clicking on the top Wikipedia link, was forwarded to a google.com-hosted redirect notice...

"Redirect Notice
   The previous page is sending you to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon%27s_Lair.

   If you do not want to visit that page, you can return to the previous page."

Huh? The second link worked alright without a redirect...

DPic [PersonRank 10]

15 years ago #

What was the URL of the redirect notice?

Roger Browne [PersonRank 10]

15 years ago #

[put at-character here]DPic: I'm seeing it too, at this URL:

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&cd=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FDragon%2527s_Lair&ei=7_LbSN73CYW6QfHO6JgE&usg=AFQjCNGFWI5h_oJ5S7JydFxWjTUNSEZv9w&sig2=PQAwlIayh6F2yBRxygC43Q

Roger Browne [PersonRank 10]

15 years ago #

Google isn't recognizing that the single-quote and %27 in the URLs are the same thing.

Maile Ohye [PersonRank 0]

15 years ago #

Hey Philipp, thanks for the heads up. We reproduced the behavior in certain browsers when signed-in. It's being investigated. :)

Take care and thanks again,
Maile

DPic [PersonRank 10]

15 years ago #

<<Google isn't recognizing that the single-quote and %27 in the URLs are the same thing.>>

Yeah i suspected that and tried it with this search:
http://www.google.com/search?q=Pachelbel's

The result for Pachelbel's Canon on Wikipedia has an ' in the URL which is also a %27 but the entry Johann Pachelbel (and all other URL's without an apostrophe in the URL work fine.

comaCow [PersonRank 0]

15 years ago #

I'm still seeing it all over the place. Do we know when Google is going to fix it?

TOMHTML [PersonRank 10]

15 years ago #

I just encounter the same problem, clicking on a wikipedia link ends to the non-safe redirection notice.

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