Links from Google search'es are opening in XML when doubleclicked

[Dinesh Kumar]

Hi All,

Links from Google search'es are opening in XML when doubleclicked just try it from your end .I think the same will happen in your case is there any problem with my system or there is a problem with hyperlink to NI"s forums via Google .Check it out and correct whoever can do that...

Thanks in advance....!

Dinesh Kumar

[nickbike]

I've just looked at this very quickly and I see the links you are talking about are RSS links.  I used this search in google CVI site:forums.ni.com and see there are several RSS links in there that look something like this forums.ni.com/rss/message?board.id=180&message.id=23296.  I think this is probably normal. 

[Graziano]

Hi!
   The problem seems to occur even when there's no rss in URL...  more, maybe due to my browser settings, when I try to open links somethimes the "print  page" panel appears whet  clicking on the link (center mouse button, to open a new tab).  I'm using Firefox 1.5.0.4 and InternetExplorer 7.0.5346.5, beta 2.

graziano

[nickbike]

I noticed links that popup the print window also when I was looking around.  If you look in URL that pops the print window you'll see something like this.

forums.ni.com/ni/board/print?board.id=180&message.id=23526&page=1&format=all

Apparently google is getting the URLs that are displayed when you go to Thread Options>>Printer Friendly Page.  You can see the page if you do those steps (Thread Options>>Printer Friendly Page) then click "Cancel" when the printer dialog box pops up.  I am not sure there is anything we can do about hiding those pages from google.

[nickbike]

This has supposedly been fixed now (google should no longer be indexing the "Print Pages"), however, we as the end users of Google will probably not see a change for awhile until all the pages drop out of the google index.

Message Edited by Nick C on 09-25-2006 02:46 PM