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What's Wacky with Google?

Posted by jamie on from the figure-it-out dept.

There are always going to be oddities with any big online service, but this one seems to be persisting. Join the discussion in trying to figure out a pattern. For maybe a week, Google has been returning zero results or "1-1 of about xxx,000" for common searches. One-word searches seem unaffected, but there are certain two-word combinations of common words like candle truck or speaker bracelet. Reversing the order can affect searches too: motorcycle candles vs. candles motorcycle. The strange thing is that usually the 1 or 2 results found are to commerce sites. Read the Search Basics, compare your notes to GoogleWhack's, have fun looking for patterns, but remember that Google always returns slightly different results for different IP numbers.

(Update: 13:56 GMT by J : When I first posted this story it said the problems have been occurring "for several weeks at least" -- but it seems to be more like one week.)

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  1. OMG by akedia · · Score: -1, Troll

    G00GLE IS TEH WACK0RZ LOLZ

    1. Re:OMG by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      HEHE MAC USERS ARE FAGS

    2. Re:OMG by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      Thank you Capt. Obvious.....

      Like I didn't mean to do it backwards!!!!

      Freudian slip and all....

      ween suckin' dumass!
      MacUser!

  2. Turd Furgeson by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    First Post in the name of Turd Furgeson

  3. FP? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    hips!

  4. Re:Corporate entity by dasmegabyte · · Score: 0, Troll

    Also, no more speed and no more uptime! No more technicians being paid for their work! No more pretty interface!

    Go open source! Let's give it away like my prom date with some other guy!

    (Wow. My bitterness is really shining through today!)

    --
    Hey freaks: now you're ju