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Old Apr 30th 2007, 8:01 am
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Exclamation Google Checkout Homepage Hijacked by Hibidder.com!
The SERP for Google Checkout's home page displays the title "use google checkout on hibidder com free."

In case they take it down a screenshot can be seen here:

http://www.jon-west.com/?p=58

What does everyone think?

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Old Apr 30th 2007, 8:45 am
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How did they managed to do that? I never knew it was possible
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Old Apr 30th 2007, 8:47 am
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Well the page has nothing to do with hibidder, weird.
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Old Apr 30th 2007, 8:51 am
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id crap my pants if this was a 302 jack. (the BH sploit google has yet to fix but has known about for god knows how long)
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Old Apr 30th 2007, 9:32 am
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I bet someone in the ODP is linking to https://checkout.google.com with the anchor text "use google checkout on hibidder com free" - and because the Google Checkout page doesn't have the no ODP tag, it is displaying what an ODP editor is using in some random category.

Go digg it
http://digg.com/tech_news/Google_Checkout_Homepage_Hijacked_by_Hibidder_com
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Old Apr 30th 2007, 10:17 am
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At first I thought this was blog spam...

nope.. they got jacked. nice trick.

that your blog?

dugg:
http://digg.com/tech_news/Google_Che...y_Hibidder_com
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Old Apr 30th 2007, 10:20 am
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ok, it looks like http://hibidder.com/ is linking to https://checkout.google.com/ with the alt tag: "use google checkout on hibidder.com free", among other google sites.

So it doesn't look like they did it on purpose. Or even know what they did. Nice way to get their site known tho.
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Old Apr 30th 2007, 10:33 am
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Yeah it's my blog (and it's not spam ).

But how could just linking to them with that alt text give them that title in the SERPs? cl52059's explanation seems a little more feasible.

Thoughts?

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Old Apr 30th 2007, 10:44 am
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anyone else seeing that funny ad when you search for "google checkout"
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&n...ut&btnG=Search


too funny

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Old Apr 30th 2007, 10:55 am
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This is the best thread I've seen in a long time! Way to find this stuff guys, this is pretty funny. Seems like Google got caught with their pants down!
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Old Apr 30th 2007, 11:01 am
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Ohene: not here... maybe it's geotargeted for you
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Old Apr 30th 2007, 12:12 pm
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I sent your link to SEL, and he already posted it

http://searchengineland.com/070430-143605.php
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Old Apr 30th 2007, 12:21 pm
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I sent your link to SEL, and he already posted it

http://searchengineland.com/070430-143605.php
Haha, thanks. It's on http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/013307.html and slowly making its way up Digg too...

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Old Apr 30th 2007, 12:47 pm
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Haha, thanks. It's on http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/013307.html and slowly making its way up Digg too...
hah those bastards quoted me.

Funny they didn't' give a link to www.HiBidder.com
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Old Apr 30th 2007, 12:52 pm
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hah those bastards quoted me.

Funny they didn't' give a link to www.HiBidder.com
You're welcome.

-the "bastard"
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Old Apr 30th 2007, 2:16 pm
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It's #1 on Digg.com and my website is down.



haha

I need to put my blog on a dedicated server.
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Old Apr 30th 2007, 2:35 pm
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It's #1 on Digg.com and my website is down.



haha

I need to put my blog on a dedicated server.
Not worth the price. Get wp-cache. Should help things a bit.
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Old Apr 30th 2007, 3:08 pm
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You're welcome.

-the "bastard"
You run SEORT???

Why no link to www.HiBidder.com
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Old Apr 30th 2007, 7:20 pm
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You run SEORT???

Why no link to www.HiBidder.com
The Search Engine Roundtable post was written by me, yes. Scroll down to the bottom and see who wrote that post. Do I run that blog? Not quite. You can see who writes to it by looking at the authors page. It just so happens that Barry (the guy who runs it) writes for both Search Engine Roundtable and Search Engine Land, so I knew it would be a matter of time till it got posted there

There was no reason to link to Hibidder.
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Old May 1st 2007, 11:21 am
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Hey West,

How about some charts on your traffic after being dugg
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