Entries from Search Engine Roundtable tagged with 'hijack'

Back before March 2005 Google page hijacking was a serious issue. It took Google some time to tackle the issue and it was less of an issue towards the end of April. But then it sprung up again in June...

Posted on June 1, 2009 8:29 AM

Some of you may have seen the post at TechCrunch which has a screen capture of Google Translate translating the name "Vimeo" into YouTube. Vimeo is a popular competitor to YouTube and as you can imagine, Vimeo's owners and fans...

Posted on February 19, 2009 8:16 AM

Mike Blumenthal has been covering Google Maps spam since Google Maps came out. I guess he got sick of covering the issues and not much being done about stopping it. He decided to do something a bit extreme. He hijacked...

Posted on October 31, 2008 7:40 AM

WebmasterWorld moderator posted a detailed thread at WebmasterWorld claiming that he feels the proxy hijacks that Google has suffered from in 2007, and was getting better towards the end of 2007 seems to be 100% cleaned up now. IncrediBill concluded:...

Posted on April 24, 2008 7:56 AM

A WebmasterWorld thread reports that many of the proxy highjack pages for your domains have been removed from Google. Proxy highjack pages are basically pages that try to outrank yours for the same keyword phrases, and thus replace your pages...

Posted on October 11, 2007 7:46 AM

In late 2004 and early 2005, page hijacks were a huge concern with Google. Back then, sites used a 302 redirect to take over a susceptible page within the search results. Marcia reports at Search Engine Watch Forums that the...

Posted on June 27, 2007 6:47 AM

Update From Matt Cutts of Google: It's definitely not related to the 302 on hotfroguk.co.uk though. See Matts full explanation below. A Search Engine Watch Forums thread has a thread about a site that appears to be hijacked within the...

Posted on March 27, 2007 6:59 AM