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ok, could it be that they both have the same server hosting company? because here we see a beerby page with a cakecentral URL http://www.google.com/search?q=si

by franze 16y ago

ok, could it be that they both have the same server hosting company? because here we see a beerby page with a cakecentral URL http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Acakecentral.com+beerby&hl=all&pws=0 http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Acakecentral.com+beerby... i would guess it was either a server (housing) accident or a DNS f*ckup that let beerby and cakecentral switch places (in an erroneous state) for a short time, bad thing google picked u the cakecentral home page URL in that moment. it saw it as either a redirect or a direct douplicate of the beerby site and decided to show the older indexed page with the same content (the beerby error page). yeah, either this or google screwed up. update: why i guess this is because i have seen similar errors when sombody screws up redirects from the home page. (makes HTTP 302 redirects from the home page to another page, and that page (or the redirect) is then changed to something else...) but this is the first time i ever see such an error between two unrelated sites.

ry0ohki 16y ago
lol the last result on that one even has the cakecentral domain, but has a title of one of our user pages. edit I'm wondering if maybe something F'ed up in Google's database
infinity 16y ago
I could reproduce this weird behaviour. First I thought that there might be some pages linking to the error page with the anchor text in question - this is also what the cache page claims. Also there are many scraper and auto generated spam sites with broken links that never really show up in the Google index. Similar cases have happened before. There is a forum by Google for Webmasters where you can tell Google about problems with your website: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Webmasters?hl=en http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Webmasters?hl=en You could tell them your findings and maybe someone from the Google team will look into the matter, if you are lucky.

by franze 16y ago

ry0ohki 16y ago

lol the last result on that one even has the cakecentral domain, but has a title of one of our user pages. edit I'm wondering if maybe something F'ed up in Google's database

infinity 16y ago

I could reproduce this weird behaviour. First I thought that there might be some pages linking to the error page with the anchor text in question - this is also what the cache page claims. Also there are many scraper and auto generated spam sites with broken links that never really show up in the Google index. Similar cases have happened before. There is a forum by Google for Webmasters where you can tell Google about problems with your website: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Webmasters?hl=en http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Webmasters?hl=en You could tell them your findings and maybe someone from the Google team will look into the matter, if you are lucky.