Toolbar shows pr10

How did they do?

[webbie]

Am i dreaming ?

[edited by: Brett_Tabke at 1:45 pm (utc) on Aug. 21, 2002]

[edit_g]

lol... sort of makes this post a bit redundant that edit. ;)

[Brett_Tabke]

Per the charter, we aren't pointing out spam sites or problem sites.

What you witnessed is a toolbar glitch. The toolbar pr value is notoriously problematic during updates.

[Knowles]

I show a grey bar, not a 10???

[Mardi_Gras]

628,000 backward links? Wow. I have some work to do.

[Macguru]

Pinch yourself by using link:www.the-snipped-domain.com on Google.

[webbie]

Brett_Tabke, i know that you are the administrator, but i posted the url of the site in order to learn things not to point out the site!
We are not sure about if this is a technical problem with the toolbar or not, so i think it could be interesting for everybody to "watch and learn" with this example.

[Markus]

webbie, the URL you've posted has just shown Yahoo's inbound links and PR. As Brett pointed out, it's a glitch. (Admittedly, the best one I've ever seen :))

[thejenn]

I checked this domain as well, as this was posted on another forum and I picked up the URL from there.

It could be a glitch, or it could be that this company has managed to pull something off that cloaks their domain in a manner that pulls the Yahoo info.

It's not simply a toolbar error.

If you run an incoming link check on Google, it displays 628,000 incoming links...all of which actually point to Yahoo. If you run a seach for the web site, the listing comes up as Google.

It's interesting...makes me wonder how they did it. I reported it as "results that do not match" and I imagine plenty of other people have as well. I'm sure it will be gone shortly.

[ciml]

This happens quite often. If Googlebot finds identical content at two URLs, it merges the listings.

The Toolbar shows the PageRank for the one it keeps, usually the one with highest PageRank (otherwise you could hijack a high profile listing for your site).

webbie, if you check the Google cache for the URL, does it show the address of a PR10 site in the Google header part of the page?

[webbie]

"webbie, if you check the Google cache for the URL, does it show the address of a PR10 site in the Google header part of the page? "

>> it shows me Yahoo! international with a PR4.
(maybe pr4 is the real one that the site is supposed to have, don't know).

[Markus]

ciml, you gave one possible explanation, but it is also possible that Google had an error in its database. Maybe they gave that URL and yahoo.com the same docID. It's not necessarily a case of spamming.