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. Seth Finkelstein postulates that the malfunction is related to Google’s spam defenses. As of today, some of these searches are fixed, but others like keyboard bracelet and motorcycle candle fail with "Results 1 – 19 of about 48,600" and "Results 1 – 69 of about 64,000" respectively.
In another unrelated (I assume) peculiarity, a search on Google for pages only on Google’s own Web site (using site:www.google.com) and searching for the word “google” finds several results that are on completely different hosts. Reported on Slashdot on Oct. 6, the inconsistent results continue. As of Oct. 11, a search on site:www.google.com google should only find pages at Google. Yet with the number of hits set to 100, some records come up from adobe.com, digits.com, osdn.com, and even washington.edu.
Google Inconsistencies page has been updated with these problems.
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