Comments on: WTF?

By: Stephan Spencer

Stephan Spencer — Mon, 10 Jan 2005 12:13:40 +0000

An interesting find. I found a couple other bugs in Google too just the other day, both of which I've documented in my blog. See "Google bug reveals favored web sites."

By: John Beach

John Beach — Thu, 06 Jan 2005 11:36:31 +0000

I get these results

Results 1 - 10 of about 276,000,000 for yahoo [definition]. (0.31 seconds)

and have managed to get to page 6

By: Jason Dowdell

Jason Dowdell — Wed, 05 Jan 2005 14:21:10 +0000

My guess is that its a bug. Since pages 3 – 4 are all foreign character sets I believe Google’s indexer is considering them the same content from different urls and not showing the rest of the listings. I think its more of a shame on Yahoo for not making their search engine search engine friendly

By: Tijs

Tijs — Wed, 05 Jan 2005 08:39:32 +0000

I’m getting to page 5 with 43 results before the “for more results…” mssg shows up. Is it showing more since more people seem to click beyond the initial few pages (adapting?).

By: Ed Keay-Smith

Ed Keay-Smith — Wed, 05 Jan 2005 06:42:10 +0000

Thanks for producing such a great blog in 2004.

I look forward to your offerings in 2005.

Regards

Ed Keay-Smith
AdWords Marketing, The Google AdWords Pay-Per-Click Campaign Management Specialists.

By: Jake McDingo

Jake McDingo — Wed, 05 Jan 2005 06:14:21 +0000

At the end, it says:

In order to show you the most relevant results, we have omitted some entries very similar to the 36 already displayed. If you like, you can repeat the search with the omitted results included.

I frequently see that message. Click the link to redo the search and I see tons of links.

By: Grassy Knoll

Grassy Knoll — Wed, 05 Jan 2005 02:18:38 +0000

Mr Steinberg, you are missing what is happening. On the original query, it will say there are several million. However, once one gets past the fourth page of results this what is displayed...

"In order to show you the most relevant results, we have omitted some entries very similar to the 35 already displayed.
If you like, you can repeat the search with the omitted results included."

I tired the terms Microsoft, eBay and Amazon (among others) and didn't get a similar results as with Yahoo.

Over at SEW forums someone from Google is saying it's related to how they do the result crowding though I'm not finding it with any other term.

By: David S

David S — Wed, 05 Jan 2005 02:03:05 +0000

That is BS. My result searching Google for Yahoo was: Results 1 – 10 of about 278,000,000 for yahoo [definition]. (0.21 seconds)

By: Tom Guarriello

Tom Guarriello — Wed, 05 Jan 2005 01:28:30 +0000

If you look closely at the fence on the grassy knoll, you’ll see a puff of smoke!

By: Matt McGee

Matt McGee — Tue, 04 Jan 2005 21:22:06 +0000

It’s down to 34 at this moment….