3

Google Web History Trends is showing URLs such as the following for 4 out of 10 of my Top Clicks (including the top 2):

I have never seen nor visited sites like this, indeed a WHOIS search shows that none of these domain names have ever been registered.

Should I check for infection by a botnet (perhaps attempting to access update URLs), or is Google just going haywire?

(Web searches for terms such as "ocean2-*.org" turn up almost no results except an unanswered question at http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Web+Search/thread?tid=5797241256dbfcee)

Adam Gibbins
  • 7,317
  • 2
  • 29
  • 42

1 Answers1

4

After doing a bit of poking around, this is the best explanation I found:

If you use a google books search and click the star next to the book found in google web history the notebook loads something akin to the follow:

God and Reason in the Middle Ages ocean2-125956.org/page/0.volume

Presumably the URL is of some internal form and produces a Server not Found error. As I am trying to create a set of bookmarks for students to access material published via google books, this is a...

From http://markmail.org/message/ckxshtvbqs2yoonm

**Edit: Here are a couple more links to backup the previous theory.

Basically, you have a Google Books result (H. H. Richardson: Complete Architectural Works), with the (possibly internal) URL (http://ocean2-7300440.org/page/0.volume)

Link 1
Link 2

Anapologetos

Mark Henderson
  • 68,823
  • 31
  • 180
  • 259
Josh Brower
  • 1,669
  • 3
  • 18
  • 29