446283 - Searches are re-directed to other site than the one chosen

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Search, defect)

Description

[Phil Spencer]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10_4_11; en-us) AppleWebKit/525.18 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1.2 Safari/525.22
Build Identifier: 3.0.1.

When searching copy-book.com/search re-directs to the wrong sites

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Google search
2.Pick the site you require
3.copy-book re-directs to wrong site

Comment 1

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

It's not clear what the actual bug here is. Can you provide more detailed steps to reproduce?

Comment 2

[erwan bernard]

The way I understand it is that if you search for, let's say "James Bond", in Google.ie and copy-book.com then you won't get the same sites in the result list.
If I got it right, I would say that's expected behaviour since these 2 sites don't use the same algorithm. But mainly that has nothing to do with FF...
If I'm right, please close as INVALID, else you really need to provide more detailed steps !

Comment 3

[Ryan Flint [:rflint] (ping via IRC for reviews)]

Pretty unclear what the issue here is, but it sounds like you've either got malware (see http://www.google.com/support/websearch/bin/answer.py?answer=8091 if that's the case) or are confused by the results for copy-book.com - which, as of this writing has a parked domain as the top result that redirects to the owner's ad provider. Neither of those cases are Firefox issues and no clarification has been provided in nearly a year, so I'm marking this invalid.