Google Max Characters Increase

Increased

[xcandyman]

Has the max characters for searches increased? It seems I can type forever and it searches for it?

Thanks

Steve

[sleazylou]

Could you not search for anything longer than 6 characters before?

Sorry I just couldn't resist it :)

Graeme

[AthlonInside]

I don't think there is a character limit but I think there are words limit, something like 6 or 7 words. Maybe someone can confirm here.

[vitaplease]

Word limit used to be ten from what I remember.

[brotherhood of LAN]

The limit was 10 words.

Searching for long sequences of underscores _'s and you'll keep finding results up to 127/128 chars long last time I looked.

[edit_g]

You can search for as much as you want, I think. I've put two or three sentences into google in quotation marks when checking that copy that clients have given me is actually unique. It usually finds the phrases if they are in there. Maybe the quotation marks make the difference.

[vitaplease]

You can add wild cards (*) inbetween the ten words limit to expand the limit and Google will not count the wild cards as one of the ten words.

(from Google Hacks)

[seofreak]

You can search for as much as you want, I think. I've put two or three sentences into google in quotation marks when checking that copy that clients have given me is actually unique. It usually finds the phrases if they are in there. Maybe the quotation marks make the difference.

Yep, I check like that as well for things. I don't see a limit.

[vitaplease]

"..(and any subsequent words) was ignored because we limit queries to 10 words"

is what I get over and above ten words.

[edit_g]

Tried searching this from the forum 3 charter:

mouse over [google.com]

"our" (and any subsequent words) was ignored because we limit queries to 10 words.

It finds the phrase but it looks like it only includes the first 10 words in the actual search. So it takes the first 10, puts them in quotation marks, and just ignores the rest. Never noticed this before - just shows that your eyes go to the results (what you need) and not to the gray on white message saying that most of the words were ignored (the fluff).

[victor]

Google news complains about single-word strings longer than 128 characters.

I think Google web used to too. But it doesn't seem to any longer.