Is Google serving Doubleclick Ads in Organic Serps?

[ponyboy96]

I was doing some searching today and clicked on an organic result, the result? Well, let's just say that it didn't take me to the intended website. Instead, I got an MFA site that wasn't the URL that I clicked on. I clicked the back button and then the result again and got the correct page.

At first, I thought, well maybe this site is serving this stuff up, but why would Search Engine Watch be serving up this kind of stuff. I then did a search for my own website's brand name and got a similar type MFA site when I clicked on my link in organic results.

Is anyone else seeing this? I have some screenshots that I can post.

[ponyboy96]

Here's the link that you get from the SERPs: [googleads.g.doubleclick.net...]

If you click on that, it takes you to a duplicate Google homepage.

[dertyfern]

Love to see the screenshots. Haven't seen /heard of this.

[ponyboy96]

Love to see the screenshots. Haven't seen /heard of this.

Do you know an approved WW site that I can post these to? I don't see a place on here to attach photos.

[ponyboy96]

Here's the links to the screenshots:

Search Results Page
[farm5.static.flickr.com ]

Landing Page
[farm5.static.flickr.com ]

[Leosghost]

flickr is usually Ok ..( redundant :) ..

[vordmeister]

Sounds like a redirector trojan on your machine taking you to an advert page rather than the real page.

My guess is the URL shown when you hover is for tracking rather than advertising, but something on your machine is redirecting you from that URL to a fishy site.

[tedster]

As a general rule we don't publish screenshots - but this case we'll make an exception.

I did the same search and got only vanilla results. To me, it looks like the result for searchenginewatch was being hijacked, probably by Adware on your computer. It is unlikely in the extreme that Google SERPs would misrepresent the destination of any click like that.

[caribguy]

Use a clean machine to google the name in the header of the first site. You'll find malware removal instructions.

[ponyboy96]

I'll run anti-virus on my machine to try and clean this.