Google 302 redirect exploit

. / carried a story today about 302 redirects being replaced with the parent URL (the URL that redirects) on the search engine listing rather than list the original URL. The situation is that the URL which redirects gets an unfair listing on the search engines, when it has no content on it ;)

Call it a coincidence, I had experienced this flaw too and had wondered why this was so in the recent past. In my case, the hpnadig.weblogs.us pages (the pages on my old blog) that redirect to my new blog pages via 302, used to get listed with the same old URL on google ;) But now, it looks like google has fixed this. My old page no longer tops the list when you search for "Kannada websites" on google. In fact, its nowhere in sight. ;)