Google Checkout Homepage Hijacked by Hibidder.com!
I just searched for “Google Checkout” on Google and the first result (not sponsored) displayed a title of “use google checkout on hibidder com free”–interesting. Now unless Google has teamed up with Hibidder.com *cough* something funny’s up. See the screenshot below:
Is anybody else seeing this? What’s the verdict? If you click the result the title is correct, however.
I wonder how long that’ll last, comments welcome!
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UPDATE:
When I woke up this morning Google had fixed it: clickity click click.
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Google Checkout’s Title Goes Missing On Google…
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Google is Broken, Again…
Starting earlier today, when you search “Google Checkout” on Google, the first result is titled “use google checkout on hibidder com free“. A bit weird, don’t you think? (from the normal “Google Checkout”) Wel…
But the actual links are valid Google Checkout urls. Maybe they’re putting random google checkout vendor in the title results to help promote them?
wow it’s no longer showing up, I guessed they fixed it. But it brings up some serious issues if someone can insert their own code in their.
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That’s pretty crazy, you would think that they would be least likely to mess up on themselves. I bet it something like the googlebot got caught up spidering hibidder’s checkout page. Probably no foul play or anything involved.
Google Checkout’s Title Goes Missing On Google…
Something look odd in the search results above for google checkout ? Yes, that’s the official Google…
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Google Checkout’s Title Goes Missing On Google…
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hmmmmm!
Thank you for you work! Good Luck.e
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