Comments on: Google went belly-up: SERPs sneakily redirect to FPAs http://sebastians-pamphlets.com/google-serps-sneakily-redirect-to-ads/ If you've read my articles somewhere on the Internet, expect something different here. Tue, 22 May 2012 01:16:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.3 By: Miriam http://sebastians-pamphlets.com/google-serps-sneakily-redirect-to-ads/#comment-2420 Miriam Mon, 31 May 2010 11:12:48 +0000 http://sebastians-pamphlets.com/google-serps-sneakily-redirect-to-ads/#comment-2420 Thanks for posting the workaround as well. Thanks for posting the workaround as well.

]]> By: Weekly Search & Social News: 05/18/2010 | Search Engine Journal http://sebastians-pamphlets.com/google-serps-sneakily-redirect-to-ads/#comment-2397 Weekly Search & Social News: 05/18/2010 | Search Engine Journal Tue, 18 May 2010 11:20:11 +0000 http://sebastians-pamphlets.com/google-serps-sneakily-redirect-to-ads/#comment-2397 [...] Google went belly-up: SERPs sneakily redirect to FPAs - Sebastian is back and like Aaron, has the proverbial bee in zee bonnet! Please do go and fill the spam report too… just for fun [...] […] Google went belly-up: SERPs sneakily redirect to FPAs - Sebastian is back and like Aaron, has the proverbial bee in zee bonnet! Please do go and fill the spam report too… just for fun […]

]]> By: Sebastian http://sebastians-pamphlets.com/google-serps-sneakily-redirect-to-ads/#comment-2396 Sebastian Mon, 17 May 2010 19:14:31 +0000 http://sebastians-pamphlets.com/google-serps-sneakily-redirect-to-ads/#comment-2396 Michael, sloppiness is no excuse for the entity that "defines WebSpam". ;-) Michael, sloppiness is no excuse for the entity that “defines WebSpam”. ;-)

]]> By: Michael VanDeMar http://sebastians-pamphlets.com/google-serps-sneakily-redirect-to-ads/#comment-2395 Michael VanDeMar Mon, 17 May 2010 18:09:54 +0000 http://sebastians-pamphlets.com/google-serps-sneakily-redirect-to-ads/#comment-2395 Meh. Sloppy on their part but I seriously doubt this falls under any of the usual patterns involved with "sneaky" redirects. More like an unannounced change, ie. discontinuing /ie for /search?q=a&output=ie. They've made worse unannounced changes in the past, imo. :) Meh. Sloppy on their part but I seriously doubt this falls under any of the usual patterns involved with “sneaky” redirects. More like an unannounced change, ie. discontinuing /ie for /search?q=a&output=ie. They’ve made worse unannounced changes in the past, imo. :)

]]> By: Sebastian http://sebastians-pamphlets.com/google-serps-sneakily-redirect-to-ads/#comment-2393 Sebastian Wed, 12 May 2010 20:25:40 +0000 http://sebastians-pamphlets.com/google-serps-sneakily-redirect-to-ads/#comment-2393 Dan, this service (/ie search interface) was not an IE6 thingy. It was out in the wild for many years and used by lots of searchers, not all of them were IE6 users. Also, it doesn't redirect only IE6 users. I'm using Chrome and get faced with this ugly IE ad. Dan, this service (/ie search interface) was not an IE6 thingy. It was out in the wild for many years and used by lots of searchers, not all of them were IE6 users. Also, it doesn’t redirect only IE6 users. I’m using Chrome and get faced with this ugly IE ad.

]]> By: Dan Thies http://sebastians-pamphlets.com/google-serps-sneakily-redirect-to-ads/#comment-2392 Dan Thies Wed, 12 May 2010 19:45:16 +0000 http://sebastians-pamphlets.com/google-serps-sneakily-redirect-to-ads/#comment-2392 This service was designed to support IE6, they decided to stop supporting IE6 and redirected users of IE6 to upgrade their ancient browser. You were using the service for some other purpose, but how is that Google's fault? This service was designed to support IE6, they decided to stop supporting IE6 and redirected users of IE6 to upgrade their ancient browser. You were using the service for some other purpose, but how is that Google’s fault?

]]> By: Sebastian http://sebastians-pamphlets.com/google-serps-sneakily-redirect-to-ads/#comment-2391 Sebastian Wed, 12 May 2010 18:53:24 +0000 http://sebastians-pamphlets.com/google-serps-sneakily-redirect-to-ads/#comment-2391 Jill, that's evil. :( Jill, that’s evil. :(

]]> By: Sebastian http://sebastians-pamphlets.com/google-serps-sneakily-redirect-to-ads/#comment-2390 Sebastian Wed, 12 May 2010 18:49:22 +0000 http://sebastians-pamphlets.com/google-serps-sneakily-redirect-to-ads/#comment-2390 To avoid the sneaky redirect you can search Google with an additional query string parameter <code>output=ie</code> like <code>www.google.com/search?output=ie&q=buy+viagra+online&safe=off&num=100</code>. The current redirect breaks all bookmarks and hard coded links to those SERPs. I don't understand why Google didn't redirect searches like <code>www.google.com/ie?q=buy+viagra+online&safe=off&num=100</code> to <code>www.google.com/search?output=ie&q=buy+viagra+online&safe=off&num=100</code> To avoid the sneaky redirect you can search Google with an additional query string parameter output=ie like www.google.com/search?output=ie&q=buy+viagra+online&safe=off&num=100.

The current redirect breaks all bookmarks and hard coded links to those SERPs.

I don’t understand why Google didn’t redirect searches like www.google.com/ie?q=buy+viagra+online&safe=off&num=100 to www.google.com/search?output=ie&q=buy+viagra+online&safe=off&num=100

]]> By: Jill Whalen http://sebastians-pamphlets.com/google-serps-sneakily-redirect-to-ads/#comment-2389 Jill Whalen Wed, 12 May 2010 18:45:28 +0000 http://sebastians-pamphlets.com/google-serps-sneakily-redirect-to-ads/#comment-2389 Ahhh...I see. Thanks for the explanation. I guess I should have read the link you posted in the article! ;) So yeah, that is a really crappy and surprising thing for them to do. Can anyone say "don't be evil"? Ahhh…I see. Thanks for the explanation. I guess I should have read the link you posted in the article! ;)
So yeah, that is a really crappy and surprising thing for them to do.

Can anyone say “don’t be evil”?

]]> By: Charlie Irish http://sebastians-pamphlets.com/google-serps-sneakily-redirect-to-ads/#comment-2388 Charlie Irish Wed, 12 May 2010 18:38:42 +0000 http://sebastians-pamphlets.com/google-serps-sneakily-redirect-to-ads/#comment-2388 Shhhh! /search?output=ie works just fine. Just don't tell anyone else. Shhhh!
/search?output=ie works just fine.
Just don’t tell anyone else.

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