Google 302 Exploit Knocks Sites Out
Submitted by praseodymium on Tue, 2005-03-15 18:03.
Google 302 Exploit Knocks Sites Out - clsc writes "The exploit: Redirect via 302 to another page of your choice, then watch as the URL of your your redirect script replaces the URL of that carefully selected page in Google's search results. Once this happens, feel free to redirect any visitor that is not Googlebot to any other page of your choice. Also applies to other search engines as well (not Yahoo! though)." [Slashdot]
I already noticed this thing when moving the site to spreadthefox.net (but didn't see any way of exploiting this): Google showed up results with firefoxfah.sf.net (the old domain) but with content from the new site. firefoxfah.sf.net has a 301 (Moved Permanently) redirect.
Google is Dying
Google is dying.
Its flaws are becoming more pronoucned daily. As soon as ONE makes it to a shareholder board meeting...BAM! Can you say stock run?!
Google is so much a super company now that a cataclysmic fall of stock would doom it to oblivion in my honest opinion.
There has been NO major additions to the search engine since 2003, only the blacklisting of an increasingly-broad range of sites for increasingly vague reasons. Ever since adwords became their chief revenue source they have been in an evolutionary struggle to find the perfect balance between banning sites (so they will buy adwords) and keeping results semi-relevant so users will stick around.
Hope