From Matt Cutts' blog, 27 March 2006: http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/q-a-thread-march-27-2006/
Q: “I am seeing a lot of sites with “%09″ (tab) and “%20″ (space) in front of the URL in Googles index.”
A: I’ll ask someone about that.
So, it's not new. |
It's probably because Google can't safely start assuming that you meant something different when you place a link.
since it reads and follows links found on other websites... there's no 100% reliable way to know if the webmaster made a mistake or not... so they take their word for it. |