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Google displaying same snippet twice?

         

johnnie

11:42 am on Apr 1, 2010 (gmt 0)

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Hi,

Please bear with me on this one...

Today, I've noticed some very odd behaviour on the Google SERPs. For a certain query, the same snippet is returned twice! The first listing, which is on first position, is an ordinary result and links to a page containing a video and some descriptive text. The second listing, which is on fifth position, shows a thumbnail of a video, some meta information on the video (non-youtube) and the same meta snippet as shown on first position (also a 'relevant videos link).

Here's the strange part; these two listings are of the exact same page! The URL is different, but it clearly is a matter of duplicated content due to poor URL structuring. Apparently, Google stores its 'rich' results (snippets with a thumbnail of some sorts) in a separate index and does not cross-reference these two indices as they are merged into a SERP.

Shwoing the same page twice does not strike me as particularly user-friendly!

tedster

9:20 pm on Apr 1, 2010 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member



Stuff happens when you get extremely complicated. I've recently seen three results from the same domain (what clustering filter?), and I only need to go to page two. Whatever Google is doing right now, it seems to be breaking up around the edges just a bit.