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Strange result for page Page blocked by robots.txt - Hello nighthawk!showing up in site: search results with a description that is a mix of Chinese, English, and German

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I found a strange search result for a resource blocked by robots.txt. Why ist there the Chinese (guessed) text followed by the text Hello nighthawk!. Is this an esteregg of Google?

Google Hello Nighthawks

Yesterday I tried to remove the URL from google with Webmaster Tools. There was no Hello Nighthawk!, only the 'blocked by robots.txt' message. The issue was reported by a co-woker.

reported issue

This is the content of the robots.txt:

Disallow: /en

The URLdomains gets redirected in the following way:

The page https://domain.com/en gets a 301 redirect to domain.com show the normal page with the correct title of the page. The

The title of domain.com/en does not contain any of the words.

I used google.de I have searched the whole project to find searchthe word 'nighthawk'. It is not included. And we never had any Chinese translations.

I found a strange search result for a resource blocked by robots.txt. Why ist there the Chinese (guessed) text followed by the text Hello nighthawk!. Is this an esteregg of Google?

Google Hello Nighthawks

Yesterday I tried to remove the URL from google with Webmaster Tools. There was no Hello Nighthawk!, only the 'blocked by robots.txt' message. The issue was reported by a co-woker.

reported issue

This is the content of the robots.txt:

Disallow: /en

The URL domain.com/en gets a 301 redirect to domain.com. The title of domain.com does not contain any of the words.

I used google.de to find search.

I found a strange search result for a resource blocked by robots.txt. Why ist there the Chinese (guessed) text followed by the text Hello nighthawk!. Is this an esteregg of Google?

Google Hello Nighthawks

Yesterday I tried to remove the URL from google with Webmaster Tools. There was no Hello Nighthawk!, only the 'blocked by robots.txt' message. The issue was reported by a co-woker.

reported issue

This is the content of the robots.txt:

Disallow: /en

The domains gets redirected in the following way:

The page https://domain.com/en show the normal page with the correct title of the page.

The title of domain.com/en does not contain any of the words. I have searched the whole project to find the word 'nighthawk'. It is not included. And we never had any Chinese translations.

Added original issue reported by a coworker. Added content of robots.txt.
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I found a strange search result for a resource blocked by robots.txt. Why ist there the Chinese (guessed) text followed by the text Hello nighthawk!. Is this an esteregg of Google?

Google Hello Nighthawks

Yesterday I tried to remove the URL from google with Webmaster Tools. There was no Hello Nighthawk!, only the 'blocked by robots.txt' message. The issue was reported by a co-woker.

reported issue

This is the content of the robots.txt:

Disallow: /en

The URL domain.com/en gets a 301 redirect to domain.com. The title of domain.com does not contain any of the words.

I used google.de to find search.

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I found a strange search result for a resource blocked by robots.txt. Why ist there the Chinese (guessed) text followed by the text Hello nighthawk!. Is this an esteregg of Google? Yesterday I tried to remove the URL from google with Webmaster Tools.

I used google.de to find search.

enter image description here

I found a strange search result for a resource blocked by robots.txt. Why ist there the Chinese (guessed) text followed by the text Hello nighthawk!. Is this an esteregg of Google?

Google Hello Nighthawks

Yesterday I tried to remove the URL from google with Webmaster Tools. There was no Hello Nighthawk!, only the 'blocked by robots.txt' message. The issue was reported by a co-woker.

reported issue

This is the content of the robots.txt:

Disallow: /en

The URL domain.com/en gets a 301 redirect to domain.com. The title of domain.com does not contain any of the words.

I used google.de to find search.

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