http/: Causing Site to Vanish From Google

Did this bug do in my site?

[BuckyBadger]

My site vanished completely from google yesterday.

I did a search inurl:mysite.com

and among a few other results I got, showing the html code:

<a href="http://http/:example.com">http/:example.com</a>

that is, instead of a colon and two slashes

http://

google results show a single slash before a colon

http/:

when I clicked on the link, it goes to microsoft, since it isn't a legit protocol.

Has anyone had a similar problem? Any idea on how this could end up in google's cache? How to fix it?

[edited by: ciml at 7:24 pm (utc) on Mar. 17, 2005]
[edit reason] Examplified [/edit]

[flyerguy]

It's not 'going to Microsoft' it's pulling up your broswers 'page not found' message, which in your case is on a Windows IE system.

You must correct your sites URL's to follow basic syntax if you want to have any hope of being indexed.

[crobb305]

Yeah its kinda sad that Google can't even clean these silly, incorrect urls from it's index.

[Lorel]

I found the exact same thing on a site linking to one of my pages. However if you click on the link it goes to my page using a redirect PHP script, i.e., a hijacker. And all the links on the page were written the same way and this comes from an adult site with links pointing to only Christian pages with keywords in the links same as the hijacker site's main keywords (name of site owner).

Now my question is, was this bad url protocol ( http/ ) specifically designed to bring down the target site?