Can somebody else who is in Norway can confirm this? It could be simply be a malware injecting this. Would be great to eliminate this possibility
I'm in France and shearched for the how often thing, it returned themermaid on second page
The mermaid is taking over Google search in Norway
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Re: The mermaid is taking over Google search in Norway
#122Pet theory (disclaimer that I know very little about SEO) would be that the website with the cloned content loads fast and does not load 4 MiB of javascript, thus beating the original content in ranking mostly because of the speed, which is I believe a important factor in Google rankings (and getting more important).
And add to that the some link spam and preventing the visitors to return not get any bounce back...
Either way, I can't help to be a bit impressed by the SEO spammers outsmarting the people at Google. (Edit: and I don't mean to say they are smarter or anything, just that they only need to find one weakness in the algorithm while the people working to improve it needs to make it works for everything.)
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#123I hate dealing with this and now refuse to use Google now when I saw patterns in search results while I was researching common things (like housing) in Norwegian, here in Norway. I rarely use Google these days, but I thought for a second that Google might be better with search results than DDG in Norwegian, but this stuff is aggravating. This is one of those where they screw around with history that you just have to…
Just want to add to my comment also that it is not limited to havfruen4220.dk, but clarifies a general pattern. I tried a couple of search terms like 'mattilbud rema 1000' and found more .dk domains on the second page (nem-varmepumper.dk, humanrebels.dk) - two things that have nothing to do with food.
Re: The mermaid is taking over Google search in Norway
#124Someone has probably found some kind of SEO Hack or Some 0 Day in Google serp. There are plenty of .it domains doing similar in Google USA serps.
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#125Norwegian here- I haven't seen this at all- maybe the author has been somehow "fingerprinted" and targeted?
Have you tried in a private window to check that you're not fingerprinted?
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#126WHOIS shows it's registered four weeks ago by someone in Riga, Latvia.
Tal's ghost is trolling now?
Re: The mermaid is taking over Google search in Norway
#127Havfruen, brought to you by mountain trolls from Finmark.
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#128Isn't it due to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_bombing
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#129Same in Hungarian. Google is full of spam and nobody cares. The top hits are auto-translated garbage for many searches.
Re: The mermaid is taking over Google search in Norway
#130I live in Norway and don’t have this problem now. I had a similar problem about a year ago on my MacBook Air because of some software that altered my Google results in all of my browsers. Don’t remember the name of it, but something smelled fishy when the results was different from the ones on my phone.
Pretty sure affects you too as it's the same for me, on multiple networks, multiple user-agents, multiple devices and so on. Simply just trie one of the examples like "hvordan regne ut prosent"(how to calculate percentages) or, I don't know..."DNB aksje"(DNB stocks, DNB being the biggest bank in Norway). Sure enough, both ranks on the first page or as the one of the top results. (One is now using the www.nem-varmepum…
You are right, it also affects me.
«hvordan regne ut prosent», https://www.havfruen4220.dk is rank 5 and 6.
«DNB Aksje», https://www.havfruen4220.dk is rank 10