Now this is an interesting and controversial finding if ever I saw one.
If you do a search for [create a search engine] in Google, then look slightly further down the first results page, you'll see this result...
img152.imageshack.us/img152/70 ...
Yet, when you click on it, the title changes. It's also not a redirect because the URL stays the same.
This is surely a method of cloaking, where the cached markup is different to the actual markup.
There MUST be an explanation for this... otherwise, forget blog "tips"... this is hardcore evil. |
Here's your answer:
blogoscoped.com/archive/2006-1 ... |
Ah, I see.
Thanks for getting my heart beating again! |
Although not Google, surely this is a use of cloaking though...
Check out the titles of the top two results...
Search for [pencil artist]:
google.com/search?q=pencil+art ...
Search for [jd hillberry]:
google.com/search?q=jd+hillber ... |
What are you getting? I don't see anything strange. (But if the titles in the SERPs don't match the page titles, they could just be coming from ODP/DMOZ instead.) |
I wonder if it would make sense for Google to display titles or snippets that don't originate at the site with some special layout. E.g. when I change a title in the forum I use [square brackets] to indicate editing. It's potentially damaging to a company to be associated with whatever someone happened to use as link text.
google.com/search?hl=en&q= ... |
