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This is very weird. jQuery.it has the same PageRank as jQuery.com (8/10). This site dates back to 2007 [1] altough it started copying the jQuery site until 2009

by rsoto 15y ago

This is very weird. jQuery.it has the same PageRank as jQuery.com (8/10). This site dates back to 2007 [1] altough it started copying the jQuery site until 2009 [2]. It also has cloned the subdomains: http://dev.jquery.it/ http://dev.jquery.it/ and http://forum.jquery.it/ http://forum.jquery.it/ What this site appears to do is mirror the content of jQuery.com by copying everything and then appending the "Time to generate" string. I just checked adblock, it also adds a Google Ad, which is the point to this. Obviously Google has messed up big time, but also the whole web by linking so much a fake site that it has the same page rank as the original. 1: http://wayback.archive.org/web/20071001000000*/http://www.jquery.it/ http://wayback.archive.org/web/20071001000000*/http://www.jq... 2: http://wayback.archive.org/web/20090601000000*/http://www.jquery.it/ http://wayback.archive.org/web/20090601000000*/http://www.jq...

qeorge 15y ago
Its fairly easy to fake PageRank via cloaking. You basically just redirect the Google toolbar queries to the real domain. Of course you're not actually fooling Google - just people using their toolbar or similar tools to check PageRank. That's probably what happened here. The jquery.it domain has nowhere near enough link strength to get an 8/10: http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/jquery.it/a!links http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/jquery.it/a!links jquery.com, for comparison: http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/jquery.com/a!links http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/jquery.com/a!links
- rsoto 15y ago
  I think the cloaking was fixed long time ago. And Google IS being fooled-- that's why it is ranked on first on that query.
masklinn 15y ago
> It also has cloned the subdomains and http://code.jquery.it http://code.jquery.it. It's an exact mirror of jquery.com, the only differences are the tld, the borked download file and ads.

by rsoto 15y ago

qeorge 15y ago

Its fairly easy to fake PageRank via cloaking. You basically just redirect the Google toolbar queries to the real domain. Of course you're not actually fooling Google - just people using their toolbar or similar tools to check PageRank. That's probably what happened here. The jquery.it domain has nowhere near enough link strength to get an 8/10: http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/jquery.it/a!links http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/jquery.it/a!links jquery.com, for comparison: http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/jquery.com/a!links http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/jquery.com/a!links

rsoto 15y ago
I think the cloaking was fixed long time ago. And Google IS being fooled-- that's why it is ranked on first on that query.

masklinn 15y ago

> It also has cloned the subdomains and http://code.jquery.it http://code.jquery.it. It's an exact mirror of jquery.com, the only differences are the tld, the borked download file and ads.