Hi all,

One of my clients is having a weird problem, and I'm pretty much at my wit's end as for what to do about it.

The site is called "Tzofit" (at tzofit.co.il), and is an index and publisher for Zimmers. When you search Google for "צימרים" the site appears on the second page, and when you search Google for "צופית" it is the first result. In both cases, you cannot miss it - Google displays the site's title and summary as Japanese!

Now here's where it gets really strange. While the main site is proclaimed to be in Japanese, all the deep links are in Hebrew. If you ask to see the Google cache, the site appears in Hebrew. If you search for its address directly (tzofit.co.il), the site appears with correct title and summary. The only explanation I have is that this is a Google index bug.

The problem is that even if that is the case, I cannot see what I can do about it. I tried to ask about it on the Google forums (http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Web+Search/thread?tid=08c423ea40d5c1ab&hl=en), but, as expected, got not replies. On the other hand, I did not manage to find anything wrong with the actual page.

Trying to translate the Japanese text, using Google Translate, back to English seems to show that the text translates, but is not coherent sentences. Then again, looking at the raw encoding, this does not appear to be Hebrew interpreted with the wrong encoding (or am I missing something?)

If anyone has any clue, it would be much appreciated.

Thanks,
Shachar

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Shachar Shemesh
Lingnu Open Source Consulting Ltd.
http://www.lingnu.com

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