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Check this out.

Do a site:www.yahoo.com on google. I have magnified the screenschot of the SERP in order to see better the results provided by google. You will have the following <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="hxxp://s79.photobucket.com/albums/j133/traiann/?action=view&current=3differentyahoopagesongoogleindex.jpg">hxxp://s79.photobucket.com/albums/j133/ ... eindex.jpg</a><!-- m -->".

The first three results are all <!-- w --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.yahoo.com/">www.yahoo.com/</a><!-- w --> insn't it?

Well, don't be so sure about that. Do not hurry up!

The first result is indeed <!-- w --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.yahoo.com">www.yahoo.com</a><!-- w --> with an cached page since 14 may 2006. I will save this one to my hdd .

Take a look at the second result, but pay attention to the spelling(more exactly the ASCII charachers used) in yahoo . Isn't that great? It is not the normal yahoo but is <!-- w --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.y%EF%BD%81h%EF%BD%8Fo.com">www.y%EF%BD%81h%EF%BD%8Fo.com</a><!-- w -->. Interesting, not? Now go further and check the cached page :This is G o o g l e's cache of <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.yahoo.com/">http://www.yahoo.com/</a><!-- m --> as retrieved on 18 Oct 2005 23:05:37 GMT.. Nice. I'll save this one too.

What will be the next one?
At the third result pay attention to the letter "m" from the .com. Is not the letter "m" itself but is the ASCII code %EF%BD%8D. The cached page does not exist for this one.

After the second result I just thought that is yahoo that have registered somehow the weird version of yahoo. But, after I saw the third result, the letter "m" from the .com I realized that this TLD doesn't exist at all. So, it must be a Google internal problem.

I hope someone here can respond to this. In the other forum I posted there was none.

Thanks,
Traian
 
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