Google Field Search Problems
For more than a month now, the intitle: and inurl: field searches have been broken. I first heard of this on May 27, 2003. The advantage of intitle: and inurl: over the advanced search page Occurrences...
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Back in May, Google’s intitle: and inurl: were not working properly, as I posted earlier. Well, they now seem to be working again. A search that combines a general query term with these field searches,...
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Gary Stock, founder of Google Whacking has posted information about recent strange problems at Google. He has dubbed these GoogleNACK (as in Negative ACKnowledgements) and offers detailed examples....
View ArticleGoogle Problems with site: Field Search
A (very) long discussion thread at WebMasterWorld, Pages Dropping Out of Big Daddy Index, explains an inconsistency with how the site: search at Google works at the moment. For some background, Google...
View ArticleMore Problems with Google site: Search
Here’s another report of Google problems with the site: command and a partial fix. The problems have been with host names containing punctuation like your-university.edu and with including a trailing...
View ArticleAmazon Missing at Google?
Here’s an interest report from John Battelle about Amazon not showing up as result on Google when amazon.com is the query. Danny adds some comments along with a report for the same event happening with...
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Super Clustering Google
OK, here’s an unusual Google search result. With my preferences set to display 100 results at a time, I ran a search powells books to see if it would use the plus box. Google only displayed the first...
View ArticleGoogle to Fix filetype: Search?
At Search Engine Land, Danny has a long report about Google indexing and ranking issues. While other sections of the post talk about an update to the visible PageRank, issues with supplemental results,...
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