Bobby - 12:26 pm on Mar 11, 2005 (gmt 0)

The problem has been around for quite some time now, about a year. When your sites were affected depends on a number of different elements such as when the hijacking site linked to yours, when Google reindexed both sites and such.

An interesting phenomenon presents itself, sort of like Ping Pong.

If your site establishes good ranking in a major search engine (in my case the hijackers were probably using Overture as a basis) the hijackers spot you and steel your content thus causing the demise of your site (unless you have been well established and have some PR to sustain you). Once your site disappears from the SERPs then the hijackers do not redirect to your site anymore and your site can reappear.

Back and forth...