Google glitch? Or the hottest new tactic on search engine domination?
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What the hell is that?
Never seen that before Anna…
That’s an actual page in the SERPs that we encountered today.
Never seen anything like it, terrible, hope they sort that out sooner than later!
Yeah, me too. We were pretty astonished as well
Wow! It’s possible they were hacked somehow.
Literally pushing them down, I like it!
Although I doubt they did it on purpose.
Yep – very possible. Though the hacker in this case gave them domination of half a page of search results.
Lol, no, I doubt that!
best of luck:)
Competitive analysis is a great way to see who is linking to your competitors and seeing if you can get them to link to you as well. This will help bump you up in the ratings if you can get the links.
This is the first time I saw something like that in a google serp. Nice find lol!
Google is moving to caffeine now. Could this be because of the transition to the new indexing system?
I haven’t looked at my RSS feed in weeks… glad to see you’re posting again!
And I hope you keep writing more.
@Dave – Thanks! If only someone could transcribe the things in my mind and type it up as blog posts – selectively, of course.
I’ve seen some marketers abandon their blogs for years though. So, I suppose I am doing better than that at least!
@Ajith – Very possible
@Sympathy – Thanks, I found it pretty funny too.
what did you search for to get this? it clears everyone below you from the SEPRs but personally I wouldn’t click on a website with all that on it.
virus city baby!
Has anyone deciphered that code yet?
Anna,
Dictation.
Possibly with speech to text software, or send the audio file out for transcription.
I’m also using more microblogging tools to collect ideas, thoughts and snippets, which I assemble into posts later on.
Anna – this is an interesting find, but let’s keep it in perspective! The hottest new tactic? No.
They have, indeed, pushed their competitors down the page, but not down the rankings, which is of course what matters. I’d guess the site with the spammy ‘push down effect’ gained about 2 extra clicks that day – people don’t click because of where the site physically is on the page. If anything, I’d avoid a site that’s description is full of complete trash.
As I said though, amusing find!
What is that? I bet Matt Cutts and the boys at Google’s website spam division had a stroke when they saw it
).
This looks too cryptic for me, maybe the gang at Google can break the code.
Great find.
That is astonishing. Is Google showing results like that? what was the search term or the keyword you tried for?
Were you able to reproduce it ? i mean if u ran the search string again did it give the same results ?. I found this very intriguing because isnt descriptions and all other things truncated when they go above 160 chasr, so i guess it may not be something related to that site.
It was so long ago I don’t remember if I tried it twice but I am pretty sure I did, with two computers. It was pretty odd …
Yes, I was pretty amazed! Don’t remember what the keyword was.
Thanks for providing information.Competitive analysis is a great way to see who is linking to your competitors and seeing if you can get them to link to you as well.
How did you do that?
Wonder what keyword they were trying to rank for? I sse some weird things but thats a new one for sure.
what it is? this meta data make me crazy to know..
How on earth!! lol… well I must say, have never seen that before with any of the search engines.. Hacker??? Surely if Google was hackable in any way it would have been brought down by now.
Possibly used the character\ANSI chars or something and for some bizarre reason Google decided to index it! Nice find Anna
Yeah it was pretty funny!!