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            <p><a href="http://freshmeat.net">Freshmeat</a>, being such a large site, appears at the top for many search queries that revolve around software. Until today the description (the extract) that follows the link was a true extract of the webpage concerned.</p>
            <p>All that has changed. If you type in Rad Upload into google, this what you see:</p>
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                <p><a href="http://freshmeat.net/projects/radupload/">freshmeat.net: Project details for Rad Upload</a><br></p>
                <p>freshmeat maintains the Web's largest index of Unix and cross-platform open source software. Thousands of applications are meticulously cataloged in the ...</p>
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            <p>The link is correct but the extract is not correct. If you type in the name of any other project listed on freshmeat you will see the same description.</p>
            <p>This can only mean one of two things: a) Freshmet has started to cloak in a massive way - Which is very unlikely. b) Google has a serious bug. That is also unlikely. So what are we left with? Speculation.</p>
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Google bug?

2005 Nov 11 at 13:19 » Tagged as :