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Hnsearch – longitudinal bait-and-switch

2 points by pbhjpbhj ↗ HN
HNsearch.com now redirects to an electronics shopping search. Presumably this was the goal when it was set up - to eventually use it for SEO by turning a massive bait-and-switch.

Anyone got other examples of this technique being used successfully. Does Google recognise the change as blackhat or does all the linkjuice forward to the new page?

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sp332
Octopart was always that. And it makes sense to redirect to the domain owner's page.

Edit: who would link to pages on hnsearch.com anyway? I doubt they're getting a lot of "linkjuice".