Came across this while trying to find a direct link to the PDF of their cloud research, trying to bypass download forms. To my surprise there was a ton of PDFs linking to shady site.
If you click on any of those links they are all fake. If you click on "cached", you see the text googlebot saw - totally different and most likely valid PDF. Someone is doing cloaking.
I also do not think the company is doing it on purpose, a lot of these PDFs are titles for ebooks that would be copyright violation.
It seems like Thousandeyes must have figured out the breach and what happened. The links on google do not work, because the domain does not exist. However, the old IP for one of them was 23.92.28.179 and that still works, and says is a PDF mirroring site.
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[ 2.7 ms ] story [ 22.6 ms ] threadI also do not think the company is doing it on purpose, a lot of these PDFs are titles for ebooks that would be copyright violation.
https://searchengineland.com/guide/seo/violations-search-eng...
Here is what ipaddress.com has as what those domains pointed to: http://vps-atl6.agents.thousandeyes.com.ipaddress.com/ http://vps4-atl1.ag0.thousandeyes.com.ipaddress.com/