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September 8, 2006

Google's Title & Description Hijacked In Yahoo Results Due To Glitch

I reported at the Roundtable that Yahoo! Shows Different Site's Title & Description For Google.com. Apparently, this is visible in the US, and if you conduct search on [google] at Yahoo Search you may notice that the top result for www.google.com has the title, "Elisha Morgan Gemologists." That title comes from a site listed in the Yahoo Directory, that happens to 302 redirect to google.com. So now, Yahoo lists that site's title and description for Google.com. Go figure?

Posted by Barry Schwartz on September 8, 2006 7:49 AM

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