DerekH - 2:56 pm on Dec 4, 2004 (gmt 0)

But there isn't a listing - if it's the URL I think it is, there's a URL-only entry which Google assert in their help pages means that it's been added to the list of pages to crawl, but hasn't been crawled yet.

I don't think it's obvious at all that it's been modified after it was crawled, and I'm pretty sure the bot doesn't have a description, despite your assertion it does.

I think rather than assert that someone inside Google has deliberately done this, I'd rather find a mechanism that we can understand, and then find a cure for. After all, I've wasted countless minutes now trying all the search engines I can think of to try to find one that lets me search for a single space between two words - I think that's key to finding how this has gone wrong.

Does anyone here have a very high PR page on which they're willing to put an HREF to a URL that has a space after the first dot? If you do, please do so - we should see that page appear in Google in 48 hours, and then at least we'll have a model for how the duff entry got there, but not a solution about how to find the site that's linking to our new members page so badly...

DerekH