Similarly, there were several other University websites which still appear on top of search engines when searching for the keyword “Buy Viagra Online” which include University of dakota’s Chidren department, Chemistry department, Univeristy of Miami (law school), Truett Mcconell College, Southern Illinois University, Children’s Mental Health Awareness Week website and several other’s appeared on the Search Engines.
These pages were set to FOOL the Google robot and it seems that there is some serverside cloaking done on these university websites to redirect the users to Fly-By-Night pharmacies. The strange thing about this redirect was that when we tried accessing these domains by visiting the Original Websites, the pages seemed to fuction normal, but when we tried clicking on Google Search Engine results, these pages redirected us to the Viagra Pharmacies. A few websites didn’t even had the redirect set properly & showed a sign of “Please Stand By” JPG image. It seemed like nasty work of serverside hacking along with Xrumer link building tricks to spam the Search Engines.
A Google Custom search on Ohio Wesleyan University site also showed that their chemistry subdomain was hacked by spammers and they made these subdomains redirect to their Online Pharmacies.
Some other websites included, World Moment For Global Democracy – www.wmgd.net website. All these websites have been appearing on the Search Engine since long now and questions Google’s Caffeine upgrade which was designed to index out the spam results faster than ever.
With the hacking and cloaking done on these reputable website’s server, there is not much that Google could do, but Google’s organic spam filter experts and Matt Cutt’s Spam Buster team ought to check this out.
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