Now Google’s Breaking 301’s!

Google March 23rd, 2006

Aaron just IM’d me about some weirdness he was seeing in the SERP’s. He had a site that was 301ing the domain.com to www.domain.com. The problem was that Google was indexing the 301 page! I had never seen this before but a quick query found many more. Is BidDaddy broke?

Google query to find some of the indexed 301’s
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&q=%22301+Moved+Permanently%22

And check out #1 position for this query:
http://www.google.com/search?q=birds+cornell+edu+all+about+birds&btnG=Search

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3 Responses to “Now Google’s Breaking 301’s!”

rjonesx Says:
March 26th, 2006 at 6:34 pm
Here is a slightly culled example which shows about 143,000 exact matches…

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&q=intitle%3A%22301+Moved+Permanently%22+%22The+document+has+moved+here%22&btnG=Search
oddcomments Says:
March 27th, 2006 at 11:29 am
It looks like the results are the same on Yahoo. I have a feeling that the problem is in the way the redirects are bing done.
rjonesx Says:
March 29th, 2006 at 5:33 pm
what query are you using in Yahoo to find those results? I cant find anything to match the results that show up using the query described in the first comment.