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by nitai 4482 days ago
I just went to a Starbucks and don't see those links. Can you please point that out further?
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Google Webmaster Tools' "Fetch as googlebot" feature is useful in debugging these problems.

See http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/fetch-as-googlebot-tool-hacked...

Awesome. Thanks. Should be good now. Though, will test some more.
This sort of malware spreading often hides itself from (a) logged in users and be (b) browser strgins that aren't Google. This can ultimately hurt your Googlerank if for no other reason than serving a different page to Googlebot than you would to outsiders. And yes, Google checks. This is why they used to have a campaign to register your mobile site with them if you were sniffing for mobile useragents.
It's not good. Change your user-agent to googlebot (User Agent Switcher is a good addon for Firefox.)

I accidentally still had it on from trying to read an article that some site was showing exclusively to the googlebot but paywalling for everyone else. If I hadn't, I wouldn't have noticed.

http://imgur.com/rYolfvR

Definitely still showing up for me.