Jacob Tomlinson 2/27/2013

Has Stack Overflow been hijacked?

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The article details a user's discovery that Google searches for 'stackoverflow' were returning a link to the www.doioig.gov website. It explains the investigation and the eventual root cause: a developer at that government site incorrectly copied redirect code from Stack Overflow, causing Googlebot to index the wrong URL. The issue was later resolved by Google.

Has Stack Overflow been hijacked?

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