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Robert_Charlton - 5:58 pm on Aug 14, 2009 (gmt 0)


Note that Google does not like search results pages to appear in its serps, including Google search results pages, so in that sense they don't like links to Google results. From Google's Webmaster Guidelines [google.com] ....

Use robots.txt to prevent crawling of search results pages or other auto-generated pages that don't add much value for users coming from search engines.

Matt Cutts also discusses this in his blog...

Search results in search results
[mattcutts.com...]

Google already does similar things with our web search results, Froogle, etc. to try to prevent our web search results from causing problems for any other engines’ index. In general, we’ve seen that users usually don’t want to see search results (or copies of websites via proxies) in their search results.

Google considers how a site's content adds to the user experience. In the light of the above, it's unlikely that linking to Google would reflect well on your site.


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