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dirkz - 6:51 am on Sep 21, 2004 (gmt 0)


> I am not sure if this is the case. It is entirely possible that this is a bug in google and not a cloak. That is the crux of the problem. Cloaking or bug?

When you look at the source of your link, it's a redirect to *their* site, not yours.

So it would be a *huge* bug in Google to interpret a redirect to /index.php on a domain as redirect to an arbitrary page on another domain. This would make Google absolutely unusable :)

The only possible explanation against cloaking would be: It was a link to your site, but they suddenly changed it to their site yesterday *before* I looked at it and Google takes some time to adopt the new version. This can be solved by looking at it in a few days. But I bet in a few days the situation will still be the same, so it's cloaked.


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