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Marcello - 9:20 am on Sep 10, 2004 (gmt 0)


After further investigation I have now found out that foo.net hijacks good-performing pages with a simple "http-equiv=refresh" Meta-Tag.

Using LWP here is how the HTML-head of their pages looks like:
<html>
<head>
<title>Copied Title of the Hijacked Page</title>
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; url=http://www.widget.com/">
<meta name="robots" content="follow, noindex">
</head>
<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">
..... Further HTML Code .....

I simply can not understand why Google replaces good-performing index-pages like my:
"www.widget.com"
by a Meta-Refresh (redirect) page as:
"www.foo.net/some-keyword/www-widget-com.html"

This is really a huge BUG in Google's algo


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