Google's Bourbon Hangover
Funny thing happened when I did a regular search for Adsense on Google so I could check my channel tracking, I ended up in the 72.14.207.104 data center, where I saw this:
When has a Google page ever been beaten by another site, let alone by someone that is redirecting to the regular Google Adsense page with a meta refresh.
Using this bug, someone could be #1 in Google for Yahoo, #1 for, well, pretty much anything with an affiliate program :) .
Fluke? Bug? Quirk? You decide, but if this guy can beat Google for Adsense, there's a big f'ing hole in their ranking algo. Enjoy.
Googleguy has publically stated on several occasions that the hijacking problem does not exist, however this site could now redirect every adsense search to any page they want - they *own* the term "adsense" in Google.
It isn't clear if this is a side effect of the Bourbon Update, or just a symptom of Google's ongoing troubles with redirects.
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Update - the 64.233.187.104 datacenter is showing the highjacked result as well.
Webmasterworld's Jenstar has a detailed analysis of the site on her Jensense blog.
They could redirect, but it would only be for a short time until the next update when the hijacking would be ended since they would not be redirecting back to G. But I suppose they could profit from that redirect for whatever time it would be in place.
May 25th - As of about 4PM Central Time, US, the results switched back to Google's own URL - very obviously a manual fix was made.
Hopefully this little glitch will draw attention to the issue and lead to a permanent fix.
The whole bourbon update is full of bugs and holes still, as far I can tell; any ideas how long things will take to stabilise?
According to Googleguy, the update was only "halfway through" as of a couple days ago.
Check out this post: Ask GoogleGuy about Update Bourbon.
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