Why does your search redirect to another site?

Answer 1

There are a few reasons. Sometimes this can be caused by a virus or other mal-ware on your computer that is automatically pushing you twoard a specific site. However, more often than note, this is a result of instructions on the page itself telling your browser to move to a new page.

There are at least a couple reasons why you might see this:

The page you encounter is a "splash page" (frequently found on commercial products sites and the pages of over zealous pre-teen "web-designers") which usually times-out after a few seconds and sends you to the "real page"

The re-direct is sending you to (or from) a secure server. You'll frequently find this with banks or other sites that deal with money transactions, though they will always tell you that the redirect is going to happen (and usually provide some sort of "This page will redirect in 5 seconds" or similar with a count down)

Sometimes (very rarely) if a server is experiencing extremely high traffic, they will occasionally re-route to a back up server at a different URL (this was more common in the early days of the net, and you will almost never see it now)

Answer 2

Because most of the time it is for a different website.