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Ionut Alex. Chitu [PersonRank 10]

Sunday, August 17, 2008
15 years ago2,623 views

Warning: some people might find the language offensive.

http://img364.imageshack.us/img364/5873/googlecomresultsatyahoouf0.png
http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=google.com – the top result redirects to Google, but the title/description are not for google.com

(via a TechCrunch comment – http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/08/16/cnn-fails-to-include-spoiler-alert-in-tweets-ruins-olympics/#comment-2439017)

David Hetfield [PersonRank 10]

15 years ago #

What the...?
That's really strange!

Did you try to contact Yahoo! Ionut?

David Hetfield [PersonRank 10]

15 years ago #

BTW, using my mobile browser, searching for google.com on Yahoo! turns out just fine :/

Philipp Lenssen [PersonRank 10]

15 years ago #

Oh my. I can't see it at the moment by the way, is it gone?

Ionut Alex. Chitu [PersonRank 10]

15 years ago #

I still see it.

Philipp Lenssen [PersonRank 10]

15 years ago #

So FartHammer.com is using a temporary http header redirect to google.com, and this is how Yahoo (or that Yahoo datacenter you're seeing) may have gotten confused. I wonder how many sites redirect to google.com though in that way and why they just picked farthammer (as it may be advertising for any site to be in that position... advertising that could be used if they ever switch back to the redirect).

Tony Ruscoe [PersonRank 10]

15 years ago #

This isn't the first time this has happened. Here's one of the others:
http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/006110.html

Colin Colehour [PersonRank 10]

15 years ago #

I don't see this where I am.

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