billegal - 7:28 pm on Mar 10, 2005 (gmt 0)

Spot on. The problem is Google. This has nothing to do with the RFC for 302s. The RFC doesn't tell a search engine how to credit page rank and discount duplicate content.

That's entirely Google and shame on them. And forget about the webmasters hurt by this, it is a shame for the users of Google who get cloaked to sites that Google recommends based on someone else's content.

Either Google can fix this issue immediately or they are morons. Simple: no credit to 302s when the supposed temporary URL has one non-302 link to it on its own site. That comports with the RFC, gives owners control over their domains and content and is the right thing to do for users.

Can't you just feel the class action lawsuit building?