quotations - 4:16 am on Sep 16, 2004 (gmt 0)

if this is the technique for hijacking, what is the actual trigger that causes google to think the hijacker's page is the real one? Is it the fact that the hijacker's page is identical?

Several of the sites doing this hijacking are combining it with cloaking.

Each cached page of their site is a copy of a page on my site.

When you search for items which are on my site, the hijacker shows up in the SERPS. If you go to the cache, it is a copy of my site. If you go to the actual url, it is a site which has a similar topic to my site but no content. It requires you to buy a membership to see the contents of their site, but if you do that, it is actually a hard core porno site.

I pointed this out to webmaster@google.com using GoogleGuy in the subject and the reply stated that I could "go pound sand."

That is not a direct quote but almost.

I then asked them this:

Are you saying that cloaking is now an acceptable practice?

Their response basically said that they have no problem with what this site is doing.