Beware Of Google Hijacking (Datamation)
Search Engine Optimization and Marketing
If you come to work one morning and find that your company’s traffic from Google has fallen to nothing, a competitor may be redirecting traffic from your site to his. Amazingly, there may be little or nothing you can do to stop this blatant rip-off. The cause is an obscure HTML command that is interpreted poorly by Google but correctly by Yahoo and some other search engines. Knowing about the trick at least gives you some hope of understanding it — if it happens to you. (Article dated: November 15, 2005)
