Google bug Demonstrated?

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Google bug Demonstrated?

Allergic

3:33 pm on Oct 15, 2003 (gmt 0)

[google.com...]

University of Washington?

trillianjedi

4:57 pm on Oct 15, 2003 (gmt 0)

<Sorry, your title mislead me.....>

Very odd - can't see how on earth that could get in there.

albert

5:00 pm on Oct 15, 2003 (gmt 0)

trillianjedi:

searching www.google.com for Google - how University of Washington comes up?

MrSpeed

5:02 pm on Oct 15, 2003 (gmt 0)

You say this is a bug. Does strange stuff like this happen for other searches?

heini

5:04 pm on Oct 15, 2003 (gmt 0)

These terms only appear in links pointing to this page: google

beebware

5:05 pm on Oct 15, 2003 (gmt 0)

It's actually the 25th result (see &start=24 ) - but still buggy...

jimbeetle

5:09 pm on Oct 15, 2003 (gmt 0)

Comes up at number 15 for me, different data center I guess.

These terms only appear in links pointing to this page: google

Yeah, but search was restricted to site:www.google.com.

Interesting catch Allergic, not sure at all what it means.

Allergic

5:16 pm on Oct 15, 2003 (gmt 0)

This morning for a 100 results, some site like Adobe and Digits where also show up!

Trillianjedi, my title was: A Google bug! The moderator change it with "The Postion One..." when it is clear in url this is the 25th results?

Tropical Island

6:16 pm on Oct 15, 2003 (gmt 0)

Comes up as #1 from here.

Allergic

6:18 pm on Oct 15, 2003 (gmt 0)

Tropical Island: I put in the url the parameter &start=24

Jbrookins

6:23 pm on Oct 15, 2003 (gmt 0)

hmm...is this like typing "god" into google and PHP-Nuke being in the top 1 and 2 positions for the past forever?

Yidaki

6:23 pm on Oct 15, 2003 (gmt 0)

Puzzled.

rmjvol

6:30 pm on Oct 15, 2003 (gmt 0)

I'm seeing it at #25, top of the page linked.

is this like typing "god" into google and PHP-Nuke being in the top 1 and 2 positions for the past forever?

No, this is a bug. The site: search function [google.com] is designed to "restrict the results to those websites in the given domain." So only pages at google.com should show in these SERPs.

rmjvol

martinibuster

6:34 pm on Oct 15, 2003 (gmt 0)

Search [google.com] for links to the .edu that have the word Google in them.

The number one result goes to this page [washington.edu]. You have the title tag with the name Google in it. The first thing below the <body> is an image link straight to the PR 9 home page. A few lines down you have your <h1> tag with the word "Google" in it. Followed immediately by an <h4> with the word "Google" in it. Five words into the first <p> we have the word "Google." And within that first paragraph we even have a link to Google.

So we have at least this one page which is heavily weighted for Google pointing back to the PR 9 home page. I think that's the reason why. I have a feeling it's not possible to do a site search on Google.com. You can however do a search on the googlesite.google.com subdomain.

[edited by: martinibuster at 6:48 pm (utc) on Oct. 15, 2003]

Chndru

6:38 pm on Oct 15, 2003 (gmt 0)

To confuse a little more,
[google.com...]
yields a google-domain result at #24.

[ed] Yidaki is right. i overlooked the www [/ed]

[edited by: Chndru at 6:45 pm (utc) on Oct. 15, 2003]

Yidaki

6:40 pm on Oct 15, 2003 (gmt 0)

Remove the www from the query (what you did chndru) and the results are ok ...
[google.com...]
[google.com...]

[edited by: Yidaki at 6:45 pm (utc) on Oct. 15, 2003]

francesca

6:44 pm on Oct 15, 2003 (gmt 0)

Comes up number 1 to me. That's weird.

plasma

7:27 pm on Oct 15, 2003 (gmt 0)

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lol?

Silicon

7:02 am on Oct 16, 2003 (gmt 0)

<nm> :-P

Powdork

7:37 am on Oct 16, 2003 (gmt 0)

Additionally, it uses Google for its site search, if that possibly makes a difference.

Pricey

5:36 pm on Oct 16, 2003 (gmt 0)

Lol, first google page listed is [google.com ]

0m6 l33t0r :D

doc_z

2:09 pm on Oct 17, 2003 (gmt 0)

By the way, also the allinurl operator yields incorrect results. Searching for "allinurl:www.google.com" and "allinurl:google", respectively, shows results which don't have "google" in the url.

Yidaki

6:00 pm on Oct 17, 2003 (gmt 0)

That's right doc_z. Obviously google messes with the advanced search parameters. The first non-google page for your given example returns a page/site where www.google.com is only found in links pointing to it. The allinanchor search returns the same page. They are either testing / tweaking or they have a bug in their advanced search when parameters like allinurl:, allinanchor: and site: ar used.

My guess is that they are testing/tweacking. Since they now do realtime updating (well, somehow - at least they say so) they don't have the days and or weeks to test things before a new index gets activated. Like it was in the past. They'd have to test and tweak things using the reall index which is public.

doc_z

7:44 pm on Oct 17, 2003 (gmt 0)

It would be a very long-term test (see msg #9 in this thread [webmasterworld.com]).

takagi

9:59 am on Oct 18, 2003 (gmt 0)

This university has a site search page on www.google.com:

[google.com...]

See also the thread Anyone know what google "edu" is about? [webmasterworld.com]