A post by one of my regular commentors, Google Success, recently posted about SearchMash.com and it seems that many in the blogosphere are talking about it including SEW, CyberNet News, and Inside Google.
In his post, GS says,
Google has silently launched a new ‘Search Sandbox’ (not to be confused with Google Sandbox) at SearchMash.com. The privacy policy and Whois records reveal that the site is owned and operated by Google.
My curiousity led me to dig a little bit deeper than that and I discovered something very surprising.
Carrying out a reverse lookup on the IP address SearchMash.com is located reveals 17 other websites, most of which present a familiar looking Google front end. What struck me was the selection of domain names sharing the same IP address.
For the uneducated (I had to look it up in the dictionary), hentai is defined as sexually explicit animation or comics.
So what’s such a domain doing on a Google IP address? Your guess is as good as mine, but the hentai-bookmart domain has PageRank and inbound links.
Your conspiracy theory is as good as mine!
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Funny, I typed in searchsmash.com , registered recently also – will this be another case of tm?
It didn’t take long for the squatters to get to work!