Redirect results showing up on the first page

[jboeckman]

I have noticed this problem a couple of times in the past few months. A top ten listing for a page that show no visible text to the user and redirects them to another site?!?

Example Type in: growing potatoes in containers
The 10th result is hometown.aol.com/ClarenceWynn31/growing-potatoes-in-containers.html when you click on the link you get sent to a spyware page.

I was at SES in December and spoke with one of the Yahoo! people about this (it was actually a different occurrence), she told me to send her an email and they would take care of it. I sent her three emails and never received a response.

Has anyone else seen these types of results when conducting research or just surfing the web? If so what have you done and did you get a response?

[wige]

I would contact AOL directly to try to get the site taken down. Include in your report how you got to the site (as the malware seems to only be activated when going to the page through a SERP) and what happens afterward.

[jboeckman]

Thanks for the info. Do you know if it would help to contact Yahoo! and who should I send it too? It seems like I run across these more and more frequently.

Does anyone else run across these?

[incrediblehelp]

Here you go:

Yahoo! Search Spam Report Form

[jboeckman]

incredible, Thanks for the link.