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Google AdSense Meta Refresh Hijacked

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the get-your-laugh-on dept.

aaronwall writes "With the latest Google Update Bourbon it appears that Google has had their AdSense site hijacked in the search results by a meta refresh. In March GoogleGuy commented that this sort of activity usually happens to low quality websites."

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  1. Google cloaking the cause? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    In Googleguy's comment, he says that "spammy" sites with low pagerank are more likely to get "hijacked".

    Recently, Google's AdSense pages made headlines for cloaking - something they rectified by temporarily imposing sanctions upon the AdSense pages.

    It seems to me that the resulting low pagerank for the AdSense pages would quite easily account for the fact that they got "hijacked".

    So basically, Google did something many people (a.k.a. whiny morons) thought was "spammy", they subjected themselves to the same sort of punishment they dole out to "spammy" pages to shut up the whiners, and, as a result, they ended up having the same minor bug that affects "spammy" pages affect their own pages.

    Big deal.