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URL hijacking is an off-domain redirect technique [3] that exploited the nature of the search engine's handling for temporary redirects. If a temporary redirect is encountered, search engines have to decide whether they assign the ranking value to the URL that initializes the redirect or to the redirect target URL.
An example of a Wikipedia redirect, showing a message that Pichilemo redirects to Pichilemu An example of a redirect on the MinervaNeue skin, from Web redirect to URL redirection. Note the black message bar on the bottom. A redirect is a page that automatically sends visitors to another page, usually an article or section of an article.
If the redirect target is an existing page on English Wikipedia and a reader navigates to the redirect page – by wikilink, the search box, or a URL – the reader is taken directly to the target page. A small notice below the top title indicates that the user arrived via a redirect.
The article on Wikipedia entitled UK is a redirect to the United Kingdom article, as it is the same topic as the United Kingdom article. Redirects ensure that different articles about the same subject are not created, and that visitors who may only know one way of referring to a topic are able to find the article they wish to, even if they are ...
A Persistent URL is an address on the World Wide Web that causes a redirection to another Web resource. If a Web resource changes location (and hence URL), a PURL pointing to it can be updated. A user of a PURL always uses the same Web address, even though the resource in question may have moved.
ICMP Redirect Message, a mechanism for routers to convey routing information to hosts URL redirection , a mechanism for making a web page available under more than one address Redirection (computing) , the redirection of streams of data into one another
Note that https://www.wikipedia.org leads to an international Wikipedia portal page, but other URLs beginning with that prefix redirect to English Wikipedia. Other projects may also use different strings in place of "/w/" and "/wiki/" in URLs.
Some URL shortening services filter their links through bad-site screening services such as Google Safe Browsing. Many sites that accept user-submitted content block links, however, to certain domains in order to cut down on spam, and for this reason, known URL redirection services are often themselves added to spam blocklists.