Cache of a Directory Shows Completely Different Website

Why is that Happening?

[ecom_guy]

Hello friends,

I have a small query about a cache I encountered recently. I was recently trying to submit one of my Uk based web site in a directory.

When i tried to check the cache using "cached snapshot of the page" option i saw a entirely different looking site.

Can anyone give me any idea why this is happening.

THANKS IN ADVANCE

[edited by: martinibuster at 7:12 pm (utc) on Feb. 24, 2006]
[edit reason] No urls, thanks. See TOS [webmasterworld.com] [/edit]

[martinibuster]

Could be they bought the domain and are cloaking the former content.

Does the cached content have more in common with the domain name than the directory that's on it now?

Have you taken a look at the history of the site in archive.org?

[ecom_guy]

Hi,

Sorry about putting in the url. Will be more careful in future. The site content displayed in the cache as well as the site design are totally different from what i see when i type in the URL in the browser.
I will surely check up and post my findings here.

Thanks a lot for your help and your reference to archive.com. Was not aware of this resource.

Regards

[justdave]

Sounds like cloaking to me.

[derrickcm]

Try searching Google for the URL of the web site. When you see the search result, if it comes up with a different domain name all together, it means the web site is probably doing something wrong to deceive the search engines or try and make their pr look better than it is, to help sell ads or something.

If not, then try just waiting a while... on rare occasions I have seen a search engine actually simply make a mistake (who knows how) and index the wrong page, provide the wrong pagerank, etc. I have even seen incorrect inbound links but this is usually resolved fast... no later than a month.