Forum Moderators: Robert Charlton & goodroi
Evidently, Google is displaying more and more information that is inaccurate to it’s users. I am talking about googlebot inability to to determine 301 redirects and list incorrect urls with incorrect page cache (hijack problem – Google’s hijack problem that is). The bottom line, you get on the serps a web site address belonging to one person which leads to someone else’s web site (that second person’s page content is also saved on Google’s cache as belonging to the first person (which is utterly incorrect).
I have seen too many incorrect listings on google’s serps lately and to my opinion this problem (301 redirects – supposedly innocent or not hijacks) can no longer be ignored. Too many sites listed as belonging to someone else and come under someone else’s url and vise versa.
Questions asked, what are the legal implications for google for displaying such evidently incorrect information to it’s users? and what are the legal implications for site owners having their pages incorrectly listed under the wrong urls (without them knowing about it or able to do anything about it). can a web publisher sue for having his/hers content (complete pages) listed incorrectly under someone elses urls and cache over google serps?
And what about the over inflated site pages count Google is so proudly displaying now days. Why do sites with merely 1000 pages come up as having more than 10,000 pages when you look them up on google? this again is the wrong information displayed to the user.
What are your thoughts on these? could you imagine the yellow pages listing so many business with incorrect addresses and phone numbers? is it really legal unless you first notify the viewer/user that the information they are currently viewing is highly inaccurate and erroneous?
