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Jitender Sarda | November 1st, 2007
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Imagine Google’s search engine being exploited for sending spam URLs. Unbelievable? Believe it!

Google is the one of the most widely used search engines on the Webtoday. To make life easier, it supports a few advanced query wordswhich narrow the scope of a search to a great extent. It appears thatspammers have found a way to exploit this facility to direct the enduser to a URL advertising their products or services, using Google’sadvanced search operators.

Recently, we came across few offer spam mails which had the following URL in it:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=inurl:replica%20intext:%22Perfect+cheap+replica+watches+online.%22&btnI=

A first glance, it appeared to be a “Google search results” link andwe were expecting it to take us to the search results page. However,when...