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according to... and no linked title

#1 in the serps

         

Powdork

6:05 pm on Jul 21, 2005 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member



I just had problems with an installation of Harry Potter on my daughter's machine. I received an error that said access denied by operating system. I tried a relevant search on Google using quotes and the first result had no link in the title. Instead of a snippet it had this:
According to http://www.example.com/blah.html more sources>>
Never Seen this before. It seemed kind of like a froogle result. The more sources link took me to more similar pages all of which had the same item for sale by download. The destination pages also had the maximum number of adsense blocks available.

Powdork

5:43 am on Jul 22, 2005 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member



Kinda thought there would be a reply to this especially after making it through moderation so quickly. Just to be clear, i am talking about a new type of result in the serps. One that shows up before all other results. One where the Title of the result is not a link but the url which comes under it is. the Title is also not the <title> of the page, nor does the text exist on the page or in any meta description. It appears to only list download pages but I haven't seen enough examples to be sure.

jd01

6:01 am on Jul 22, 2005 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member



It's funny, I noticed these results but did not pay any attention... Why? I know where the free results are and I know if I click on one of those other ones, they are going to try to sell me something, so most of the time I don't even look.

Kind of nutty I guess... I noticed it and thought, wow, some more ads, neet, where's the site I was looking for...

Justin

Powdork

6:08 am on Jul 22, 2005 (gmt 0)

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In my case, while it wasn't at all what I was looking for, it was pretty relevant since I was unknowingly searching for the name of the download in quotes.