self referencing loops http://www.yackyack.co.uk A Blog about Search and Online Mon, 19 Jul 2010 10:15:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 self referencing loops http://www.yackyack.co.uk/spam/google-spidering-its-own-custom-search-results/ http://www.yackyack.co.uk/spam/google-spidering-its-own-custom-search-results/#comments Mon, 25 Feb 2008 21:40:55 +0000 robwatts http://www.yackyack.co.uk/spam/google-spidering-its-own-custom-search-results/ I was doing a little search this evening and found this amongst the results on the 1st page.google-spidering-own-results.jpg

I thought it might be something related to me being signed in to a Google account so I signed out and tried again. Same result. So I opened up IE7 and same result.

I tried the same query on Google.com but it didn’t replicate.

Who is this mystery user=016597473608235241540 I wondered, no one it seems there’s a few more of them too. A little site:google.com/coop/preview query reveals just 152 results which in the grand scheme of things is just tiny . The question is however why? Why spider customer results and include them in a SERP however small the sample.

Noindex perhaps? How about robots.txt even

The result page itself has the distance in Kilometres but no link to any defined map or directions/distance page. Just two links to wikipedia – crap really, not a good user experience.

googleweird.jpg

I’m sure there’s a better result out there than this one.

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