Redirected to YahooAnswers?

Some days, when I try to reach any page of CC’s forum, I wind up at YahooAnswers for some strange reason. The YA page says something like “Oops! This content does not exist”.

Anyone else having this problem? :frowning:

Can you give me an example url that is being redirected? Is it a link in a post? I haven’t read of anyone else reporting this issue and I know of no reason on the site that would cause it, but I would like to investigate it further.

Thanks for replying, dkblinux.

It randomly happens on any CC forum url, whether it’s the home page, my profile, or a thread. Whenever I try to access anything on the site, I just get sent over to YahooAnswers. I never have this problem with the regular CC site.

By the regular CC Site do you mean [College</a> Admissions, Search, and Financial Aid Help from College Confidential](<a href=“Applying to College 2023 | College Confidential”>http://www.collegeconfidential.com?) How frequently does this happen? Can you post the url that you are redirected to? Is there any chance you are running a Yahoo toolbar in your browser? If you are, could you turn it off and see what happens.

Yes, anything that has “collegeconfidential” without “talk.” infront of it. It happens every week and a half or so. I wil post the url the next time it happens. I’m not running a yahoo toolbar.

Got the url, it’s: [Yahoo</a>! Answers - Get answers, ask questions, find information](<a href=“Yahoo | Mail, Weather, Search, Politics, News, Finance, Sports & Videos”>Yahoo | Mail, Weather, Search, Politics, News, Finance, Sports & Videos)

Thanks for the additional information. The only time I’ve seen Yahoo respond with a custom 404 page has been when the browser is using a Yahoo toolbar. If you can get the url you attempted to go to, we’ll be able to track down the broken link(s) on [College</a> Admissions, Search, and Financial Aid Help from College Confidential](<a href=“http://www.collegeconfidential.com%5DCollege”>http://www.collegeconfidential.com). Thanks so much for reporting this.

You can use any CC forum link as the link I attempted to go to.

<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com%5B/url%5D”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com</a>
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/community-forum-issues/886193-redirected-yahooanswers.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/community-forum-issues/886193-redirected-yahooanswers.html&lt;/a&gt;
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/members/lenoradusk-314634.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/members/lenoradusk-314634.html&lt;/a&gt;

Etc. :slight_smile:

Are you running the Yahoo toolbar, lenoradusk?

Nope, no Yahoo toolbar.