I'm recently trying to do some searches on some PTR sites i'm joined, and the search results i click on re-direct me to a goggle search.

Does anyone know why it does this, and is it a verification type re-direction and to search through that to perform a search??

Would appreciate any help from anyone who knows what to do with this, or why it re-directs to goggle search.

I've had similar experiences with results redirecting to a google page. I'm not really sure why though, could be just the "default" search engine it is told to use instead of giving a 404 not found error.

Or maybe, for a particular keyword, they are at the top of the google page results.

I do upwards of 100 searches per day/night in my various programs and have run into this problem: redirecting to the google search engine.

Othertimes, redirecting to another search engine.

BUT not giving me the result I clicked for.

Why does it happen?

My guess is it a dead link or an intentional "page redirect".

My solution is to click my "back" button and do another search, as I want to do a valid search, for the honest programs that I am in.

I chose something further down the list of results; often the "google page spectre" is a result of clicking the top one or two results of a search list.

Something else I have found is that some search engines are "empty". I click on them over and over again; upwards of ten times and I get "no results found". It seems like the search engine has no advertisers signed up.

A related topic: If you get the old "search limit exceeded", this can often be rectified by dumping your cache; that is, the tracking cookies and history.

But clearly, to get a valid result, simply finding yourself on the google page, or some other page not related to the search, will not constitute a valid search.

I figure that is why search engine affiliates complain about the low number of valid searches that their adverts yield; it is not just cheaters, sometimes it's just bad search engines.