Sponsored Google Ad Hijacks Linux Site to Microsoft.com

Posted by helios on Nov 1, 2005 8:31 AM EDT
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Why does a link that is supposed to take me to a Linux site take me instead to MS.com? Let's have a look at this, shall we

Now maybe I'm just the only person left on earth that is suprised by this...maybe it happens all the time. Try it yourself then ask yourself this: Does Google know this is hapenning? Does MS know this is happening? Who made it happen in the first place?

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=mozclient&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&q=linux+articles+wanted

Once there, go to the bottom link or the one that has "informationweek.com under the heading "Linux Articles"

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