I just opened up my webmaster tools and I saw tons of 404 trying to find pages such as this: [nourl]http://www.example.com/path/file&$Version=0&$Path=%2F,+$Version%3D0[/nourl] I have no idea how google got the idea to try such a weird query string. I think something must have happened to my navigation since path/file is a bunch of pictures in a gallery. However I find it very strange and I was wondering if someone has seen this before.
I've seen stuff like that a lot - and have no clue where google gets it from. Check your navigation, it may just be that you are inadvertently linking to that URL.
Google Webmaster tools is displaying that my site was last craeled 11th Febuary yet it is cached on the 25th Febuary. Strange that webmaster tools did not update.
The links are not on my site, so the google bot didn't find the link "from" my site, hence my statement "its not from my site". It should have been clear in the context of your post that I was responding to. You probably read "Its not my site" "Its not about my site" or whatever you hastily understood. "its not from my site" wasn't that clear either, so I should have said "The links are not from my site". Didn't know I had to spell it all out, since I was answering a question about the links on my site. I was answering this question of yours:
Well, it was a suggestion on my part, not a question. Anyhow: I've seen this myself, and I have no idea where google comes up with these URL's. The options are basically: It could be a broken internal link, or a broken link from a site elsewhere online, or just google messing up.
Yeah sorry about that. I don't like to be under suspicion of hacking. I am sure its not a broken internal link. I have seen weird stuff on other sites as well (e.g. a new site that only had one page for a while got stuff like newsite.com/?K indexed in Yahoo for no obvious reason).
I see these as well. Most of mine seem to have had links pointing to that url in the past, but no longer - i.e. I deleted the page, or I had an incorrect link at some point, its gone, but Google keeps looking for it.