Google Spidering Encoded HTML in Urls?

Apr 24, 2008 - 2:13 pm 4 by
Filed Under Misc Google

Maybe so, just a spidering glitch, weird links, or sitemap error? I was searching this morning in Google doing some tests on Google's new Whois feature. When I plugged in a domain what popped up in the first page of the results was a weird URL including encoded ampersand and other characters in front of the shown URL for the website (aboutus.org). Once I clicked on the link I got a 404 error.

Screenshot: google spidering encoded urls

Link to Result.

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