japanese - 2:06 am on Mar 8, 2005 (gmt 0)

BigUns,

Many thanks for your input.

Yahoo’s much heralded and eagerly expected presentation of its 301 and 302 overview failed abysmally to create a sensation that was expected by passionate webmaster who were agog with anticipation of a new directive to govern and standardize such redirects. In fact I have just seen it for the first time myself, with your compliments, and it gave me an anti climax feeling which I was trying to avoid since it was published.

I am none the wiser for seeing it and in no doubt about its insignificance to the internet community as a whole. It looks more like an alphebet training supplement than a hard core anti blackhat hijacking directive.

It must have given google and msn a similar feeling and as yet no pomp and pageantry is planned for the unveiling of google’s answer to these redirects. This problem with redirects is the biggest thing on the internet and it has been dexterously kept under wraps by 2 of the worlds most dominant internet companies. This kind of thing normally brings a company to its knees, but google has so many fans that they just want it to find a solution. When it does, we can then equate the sensation compared to Yahoo’s. Who knows, google’s answer regarding the redirects may be heralded as the new dawning and the definitive revelation of scriptures that will govern redirects and that all who use the internet will one way or another abide by it.

A typical alexa link
[redirect.alexa.com...]
The browser or robot is told there, at the serverside, where to go with a 302 directive. And I could not find anywhere in the header or at the alexa site to suggest that googlebot should KEEP the target page. No reassurance of any sort except a frighteningly efficient redirect system.

Can you please assure us that the above script is totally harmless.

What assurance and where can we find evidence that such 302 redirects are approved by google.