Can Google Positions Be Hijacked

I suspect we have had a google position taken

[auinfo]

I know this is pre moderated and to be honest I would rather I could discuss it offline as I am quite worried about it. I am no expert in search engines and sincerely hope I am worrying about nothing.

I did a search in yahoo on sites linking to our site and found two sites linking back to us which I had not seen before. When I clicked these links I was redirected to the same site but could see no mention of a link to us. The description in the Yahoo link seemed to be an all the web type link

I saw the page that one of the links was pointing to and in Google tried a search phrase(relating to that page) I know we have had a decent result in. The results of the search showed the site supposedly linking to us but we are not there. I did another search (again a good result previously for us) and again saw this site but not ours.

I don't want to wrongly accuse any site but how can I check this out as I know we won't be the only ones effected by this? There is no contact info on the sites so I can't email them. I don't want all our Google palces taken one by one.

I can provide exact deatils if you are interested but I would rather this wasn't posted. I know you aren't set up to cater to individual requests but I don't know who to contact.

[ukgimp]

Have you checked the cache to see what it there. You may get lucky and see the real content.

[rfgdxm1]

No way of answering this because you can't post specifics. However, this sort of hijacking should be impossible just by linking to a site.

[auinfo]

I looked at the cache but had the message that about having to turn off java and then was redirected to the other site.

I feel certain something strange is going on as the link is to a page we previously had the good result with but this site is now there and we are not.

I can provide specifics offline

[Jimwp]

I have seen this happening more and more in the serps. I believe it is due to the fact that the site is serving up one page to the bots and another to the public.