Google supports false advertising?

Posted by Recontemplation on Saturday October 24, 2009 @10:50PM
from the self-post dept.

Search Netflix in Google right now and hit on the first sponsored link. It will take you to BuddhaShopper.com and then redirect to Netflix sometimes!? See the included url to Google search result. Am I confused or is this not suppost to happen?

http://www.google.com/search?q=netflix&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

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Re:Google supports false advertising? by jacquesm on Saturday October 24, 2009 @11:21PM (#901210)

It links to netflix for me.

And yes, you're confused, because a wrong search result in google does not mean that 'Netflix site hacked right now?'.

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Re:Google supports false advertising? by Recontemplation on Saturday October 24, 2009 @11:33PM (#901218)

I'm not confused. Paste the above url in your browser and click the sponsored Netflix link. I guess you are right that there is nothing wrong with Netflix but surely Google cant permit a sponsored link to display one domain and actually be another one entirely. I took a video of it and am in the process of posting it to YouTube.

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Re:Google supports false advertising? by jacquesm on Saturday October 24, 2009 @11:40PM (#901222)

A hack of netflix implies that netflix' servers have been compromised.

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Re:Google supports false advertising? by Recontemplation on Sunday October 25, 2009 @12:00AM (#901235)

The video proof:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_797XSpj9k

Don't you get the vulnerabilities implied by this? Read my YouTube description.

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Re:Google supports false advertising? by Recontemplation on Saturday October 24, 2009 @11:54PM (#901231)

I changed the title from "Is Netflix site hacked right now?" to "Google supports false advertising?" to be more accurate. Let me know if you can think of a better description my scrupulous friend.

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