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page-jack verb. To steal a Web page and submit it to search engines under a different address. Users who run a search and attempt to access the page are then routed to another—usually pornographic—site.

Example Citation:
"The United States and Australia Wednesday announced raids and a crackdown on people who moved Web users from the sites they wanted to pornographic sites—and would not let them leave.

The Federal Trade Commission in Washington characterized the scheme as the 'page-jacking' of as many as 25 million of the roughly 1 billion pages on the World Wide Web."
—"New Web Hazard: Page-Jacking," Reuters, September 22, 1999

Related Words:
doorway scam
gator
mousetrapping
search jack
slamming
spamdexing
Webjack

Subject Categories:
Computers - Hacking and Hackers
Computers - Internet

Posted on September 27, 1999 at 12:39 PM


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