Really STRANGE search results

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Really STRANGE search results

jawhite

9:13 pm on Jan 23, 2007 (gmt 0)

ok, I noticed I was not showing up for all of my normal search phrases but some site was at the top of the list that had the title "Relocate" and it was some website in Canada.

Then I did a search for MYDOMAIN.com and it returned the same site at the top of the list BUT it had links to my site as subpages under the Canadian site. Any ideas here? It just happened today because I noticed a huge drop in traffic.

Relocate - 4:04pm
Sorry, your browser does not support Java Script.
web.NOTMYDOMAIN.ca/ - 1k - Cached - Similar pages - Note this
Subpage1 - www.MYDOMAIN.com/search/
Subpage2 - www.MYDOMAIN.com/subpage2/index.html
Subpage3 - www.MYDOMAIN.com/subpage3.html
Subpage4 - www.MYDOMAIN.com/subpage4/index.html
More results from web.NOTMYDOMAIN.ca ť

[edited by: tedster at 9:46 pm (utc) on Jan. 23, 2007]

g1smd

10:16 pm on Jan 23, 2007 (gmt 0)

Some sort of redirect hijack?

Doesn't look good.

jawhite

3:52 am on Jan 24, 2007 (gmt 0)

The domain name of the other site actually points to the University of British Columbia. I wouldn't think they would hijack my domain name, which is a Christian site. If you do a search for a very common Christian search term my site is listed first, actually for several terms. Now this site is listed and the title of the listing is 'Redirect' and the description is 'Sorry, your browser does not support Java Script.' This site is obviously being confused with mine somehow. Never seen anything like it.

theBear

5:59 pm on Jan 24, 2007 (gmt 0)

g1smd,

It looks like some weirdness at the 'plex.

everybody,

UBC is doing a meta refresh and jawhite also has a proper 301 in play. But the issue resides at the 'plex as near as I can see.

[edited by: tedster at 5:42 am (utc) on Jan. 30, 2007]

jawhite

4:56 pm on Jan 25, 2007 (gmt 0)

I'm glad it seems to be a Google problem. I've been reading some scary stuff about hijacks. Hopefully they will get this corrected soon. My traffic is down 50%, which means so is my Adsense revenue.

theBear

2:33 pm on Jan 29, 2007 (gmt 0)

jawhite,

There is a fix in the pipeline:

[mattcutts.com...]

So this bug is being marked as entering the Googlebug Museum display cases.