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Back in 2007, Microsoft acquired Jellyfish.com, a comparative shopping engines.
Sometime recently, it seems Microsoft set up a 302 redirect from Jellyfish.com to Bing's search results for [jellyfish].
The interesting part is that this is a rare case where Google has indexed a link to Bing's search results.
The second result in Google for [jellyfish] is jellyfish.com:
When you click it, it does a 302 temporary redirect to http://www.bing.com/search?q=jellyfish&form=MSDTR1 and then shows search results on Bing for Jellyfish.
I am sure Google will remove the result soon from the search results but this is just a rare case of Google indexing a Bing search result page, because of a weird redirect.
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Comments:
Josh Zehtabchi
04/24/2014 01:04 pm
That's pretty interesting. Nice find.
wertwert
04/24/2014 04:01 pm
Google's web scraped word definitions are also easily manipulated via 302 redirects. Some pretty shabby coding going on in those feature sets.
Kyle Risley
04/24/2014 05:26 pm
Could you elaborate on this or provide an example? Thanks :)
Moti Hamou
04/27/2014 05:47 am
What's weird in this behavior? As long as there is only a 302 (temporary) redirect, then Google should still show the original URL (Jellyfish.com).