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Originally Posted by fiddler
This may sound like a stupid question, but has anyone else experienced this:
I'm doing a search on Google and when I click on the listings that I think are relavent within the top ten of the search, I end up not on the page promised in the listing, but on another site entirely that often has nothing to do with what I'm looking for. I have to back-track to the listing page, then literally type or copy/paste the URL shown in the listing to get where I want to be. The further I go in the search - say pages 2-10, I don't have that problem, just with the first page.
At first, this was a minor annoyance, happening only once in a while. Now it is happening with every click! Anyone know what's going on?
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Strange that no one has asked for an example of what you're searching for when you see this so others could check it. While it could be malware, it's most odd for malware to be so specific with one SE.......but it could also be G's typical allowance of black-hat techniques to special treatment sites. I see it all the time. They say they don't allow it, yet they constantly allow certain sites to do their page cloaking and deceptive redirects. Yesterday I was searching for something using G, I read the result, clicked on the link, and I was sent to page that required a login to read it! That's illegal by their own admission, yet they allow it. Happens all the time to me. They also allow similar BH techniques at WMW, Bizrate, Epinions, and other types of useless "portals".
So post the example and let others see if they get the same result.