{"id":1209207,"date":"2023-12-06T12:03:19","date_gmt":"2023-12-06T17:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1209207"},"modified":"2023-12-06T12:03:19","modified_gmt":"2023-12-06T17:03:19","slug":"google-search-results-are-showing-reddit-urls-altered-to-include-a-slur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1209207","title":{"rendered":"Google Search results are showing Reddit URLs altered to include a slur"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"rss-wrap\">\n<figure class=\"intro-image intro-left\">\n  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/GettyImages-1237940137-800x534-1.jpg\" alt=\"A magnifying glass is photographed with Google logo displayed\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\" style=\"font-size:0.8em\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/GettyImages-1237940137.jpg\" class=\"enlarge-link\" data-height=\"683\" data-width=\"1024\">Enlarge<\/a> (credit: <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"caption-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/news-photo\/magnifying-glass-is-photographed-with-google-logo-displayed-news-photo\/1237940137\">Getty<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<div><a name=\"page-1\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Reddit URLs are being manipulated to include a slur in the subdomain, and those URLs are coming up in Google Search results.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2023\/12\/5\/23989822\/reddit-bug-slurs-added-links-google\">The Verge<\/a> experienced the problem on Tuesday, reporting that while doing a Google search, Reddit results that came up had a URL that looked like this: &#8220;https:\/\/2goback-[slur].reddit.com\/r\/[the rest of the URL]&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>One Reddit user posted about the problem <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/reddithelp\/comments\/18ayk5t\/reddit_is_opening_as_this_on_google\/\">on Monday<\/a>, and other Redditors also noticed the issue (examples <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/help\/comments\/18b7uoc\/weird_urls\/\">here<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/help\/comments\/18b1b7o\/strange_reddit_domain_on_google\/\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1989002#p3\">Read 17 remaining paragraphs<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1989002&amp;comments=1\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Ars Technica &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1989002\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google Search results are showing Reddit URLs altered to include a slur<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enlarge (credit: Getty) Reddit URLs are being manipulated to include a slur in the subdomain, and those URLs are coming up in Google Search results. The Verge experienced the problem on Tuesday, reporting that while doing a Google search, Reddit &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1209207\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1209208,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,110],"tags":[73],"class_list":["post-1209207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ars-technica","category-unfiltered-rss","tag-ars-technica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1209207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1209208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1209207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1209207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1209207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}