relationship between web.de and google

google show redirect link of web.de on results

[matthias]

I did a search and in one result google shows [web.de...] as link. This link redirects to the actual site. Anyone has expirenced something similar? It's kind of annoying.

Oh wait, I just see: They must have picked the site in the web.de directory up. But it's still annoying that google doesn't detected the redirect.

[heini]

Well the good news in that is Google spiders the directory, and I suppose PR is passed on despite the redirect.
I had a site which for two months was listed in Google with correct description and title but with the web.de jump url. That happened after I moved the site to a new host.

[seindal]

The address with the redirect might be in dmoz. I have such a situation. I had some pages under my personal homepage with photos and text relating to ancient roman history and culture, and one of those pages was included in dmoz.

Then as the content grew, I made that part a separate site on a subdomain, with a redirect from the old location, which is, however, still in dmoz. If one does a search on some good keywords for that site (like: "photos forum romanum" (am I allowed to write this? :)) the old address comes out first, because it is listed, and other related pages from the separate site comes afterwards as a separate site.

Google does detect the redirect, because the target page gets the pagerank, but it still shows the old address, because it is in dmoz. I have requested a change, but it still hasn't been changed. After all, the link works, and pagerank is propagated, but it looks wrong.

René.

[matthias]

Well then it just looks like a bug to me. There is no reason to show the wrong url - they know the right one. I love google but this thing really... bugs me.

[seindal]

Maybe they do it because they want to put the dmoz category in with the link, so they have to show the link listed in dmoz, even though that is only a redirect.

I don't know how google handles redirects, but if they handle it as a page with just one outbound link, then the page that redirects has a pagerank too, and that might be higher than the page it redirects to!

René.

[matthias]

My Link doesn't come from dmoz but from web.de and the directory page isn't ranked at all (grey at toolbar).

<rant>
It's not just a cosmetic problem (and I would have a problem even with that). The site is listed twice in google. With the correct link and with the redirect. The redirect version is up to date the correct link is very outdated.
</rant>

Where should I reported this?

ps: I don't know if there is any connection but my PR dropped 1 point days after the end of the dance.

pps: Sorry for the rant, but I'm a little desperate.