Listings Hijacked At MSN, With A Little Help From Google
Google 302 and MSN from Dave Naylor is chock full of badness on the parts of
both Google and MSN, showing how Google redirections are causing it to hijack
listings in MSN’s search results. Dave gives you the short rundown. Here’s the
spelled out version, and thanks for his help in assembling it.
Overall, a nice demonstration of why MSN needs to consider how it handles
redirection. My
Revisiting Hijacking & Redirects: Moving To A Solution story gives you more
background on the hijacking situation as it especially has impacted Google.
I also wrote that story as a lead in for our Indexing Summit 2 session as SES
San Jose that was held last month, to see if we could get a standard solution to
handing redirection and eliminate these type of problems. I was planning to
finally write up what happened at that session next week, and I still will,
promise. But here’s the summary:
Want to discuss or comment? Visit our forum thread,
Google Hijacks Batman Room Decor Listing At MSN!
Postscript: I was incorrect on the robots.txt banning. The robots.txt
file for Google Groups wouldn’t have prevented MSN from crawling Froogle results
that can be accessed under that domain. More in the forum thread above.
Postscript: I was incorrect on the robots.txt banning. The robots.txt
file for Google Groups wouldn’t have prevented MSN from crawling Froogle results
that can be accessed under that domain. More in the forum thread above.