tantalus - 11:59 am on Nov 2, 2005 (gmt 0)

I discovered this with site of mine doing a "site:" search about four weeks ago. So whether it was the normal bot or V2 the // urls were getting into the index.

Google spidereing these urls coincided with a 20% drop in my trafic which I at the time attributed to algo changes. Coincidence? I dunno.

I put in a base href to stop the rot when I dicovered the problem.

I now just checked again with the "site: search" and, lo and behold, the /// urls are no where to be seen.

So the good news might be that Google has fixed the problem?!?