With the copy test I'm talking about, you are not looking to see your test site (that is, the zeroed site you are talking about) come up in the search, you are looking to see if other domains come up showing the unique text that should only be found on your test site.
This is a way of seeing if someone else is either deliberately or accidentally duplicating your text.
6 months back still allows this zeroed site to be affected by the meta-refresh bug. When did your friend set up the redirects to this site- before or after it zeroed?
What is most likely with a zero like that is that the google algo decided your friends site was spamming, and they have penalized it.
But there are a few other possibilities, including the "new" google bug I'm talking about.
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