Google Adsense site hijacked

Google’s AdSense page has been replaced by a smaller web page, showing that even a billion-dollar company can have its internet presence adversely affected by very simple methods.

Jenstar reports that in a process known as “hijacking”, Google’s AdSense page has been replaced by a smaller website in the results of a search of AdSense.

The process involves using nothing more complicated than a meta-refresh redirect, which can confuse Google into thinking that the site redirecting is actually the original site.

Google have had previous problems with different forms of redirects, but the current example shows that even a billion-dollar search giant can be replaced in its own results, using relatively simple methods.

The issue was originally spotted by Patrick Deese.