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Hmmm…can someone click this link and tell me what happens?
http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=navclient&gfns=1&q=poker sites comparison
For some reason its taking me directly to pokerlistings.com rather than Google SERPS. Has my PC been compromised or is it some sort of Google oddity…?
I am taken to pokerlistings.com too. :tooconfus
Weird – someone able to explain this?
Takes me to the Google serps. but first result is for pokerlistings..
Google seotargets me to google.nl, perhaps this made the difference.. Other than this I only now that google redirects me to a page when I search for a domainname..
It’s a redirect….
Been noticing this on Firefox for a week or so, and thought it was great. But only just started happening on IE.
Wonder what’s up?
It took me to the page also?
Could it be the feeling lucky button on google?
Bradalso getting it, seems like good SEO tactic :roflmao:
@Talk Casinos 141743 wrote:
It took me to the page also?
Could it be the feeling lucky button on google?
BradThat’s what I figured as well, problem is no one is clicking on any buttons. It appears to me as if Google has modified their algorithm for some search terms meeting certain criteria.
If I type the phrase direct into the address box of the browser, sometimes it does exactly the same thing – but not for all phrases, for example “online casinos” still returns normal results, but “poker sites comparison” takes you direct to pokerlistings.
If I type the phrase direct into the SEARCH box of the browser, however, it always returns normal search engine results.
What’s really weird is that if you change the order of the parameters in the querystring, it takes you to the normal SERPs. Only in that particular order does it redirect you to the first result.
The “I’m Feeling Lucky” was the first thing that popped into my mind as well, I thought maybe the “&gnfs=1” was what triggered that, but nope.
That is truly bizarre…
Well, I have an answer, at least for Firefox – Firefox has a setting which causes keywords typed into the address box to redirect to Google’s “I’m Feeling Lucky”. That definitely explains why it happens with Firefox.
The only thing I can assume is that Simmo’s link, presumably from his logs, was in fact an “I’m Feeling Lucky” redirection.
Except there is clearly no “luck” involved :sarcasm:
