Look at the source code of Google’s SERP page and you’ll see the following:
<h2 class=”hd“>Search Results</h2>
However, on the page you don’t see this bit displayed anywhere. Sure enough, you won’t see it because the stylesheet makes this bit invisible:
.hd {height:1px;overflow:hidden;position:absolute;top:-1000em;width:1px;}
And mind you, this is not the Ajax bit that can be hidden or shown by the user clicking anything. Hm hm… but don’t Google’s webmaster guidelines say:
Don’t deceive your users or present different content to search engines than you display to users, which is commonly referred to as “cloaking.”
Google sets the rules and violates them itself. Nothing new of course, not the first time we see it. But what’s weird is, why would Google want this hidden heading if its search results aren’t even supposed to be indexable?
See http://www.google.com/robots.txt:
Disallow: /search
Where’s the logic then?
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