Google hit by duplicate content penalty.

I’ve just notice today that google has been hit by a duplicate content penalty and dropped in rankings…

I’m lazy and wanted to log into google webmaster tool so I search on google for “sitemaps” (It used to be sitemaps before)…

Anyway for the last few years google has been #1 for the search term “sitemaps” BUT not today…

Here is a screen shot showing google has indexed google.com and www.google.com

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We can expect more ranking drop for google’s page over the next few weeks until google works out which is the “real” url..

Here is the query.. http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=sitemap

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