The Google Advanced News search page has several bugs.
Go to the Google Advanced News search page. In the with at least one of the words field enter this:
"Airedale terrier" "Tabby cat"
These keywords are designed to run a search for articles about Airedale terriers or Tabby cats. Click search. On the results page, the search box incorrectly displays this:
"Airedale OR terrier" OR "Tabby OR cat"
Google inserted the literal OR into two exact phrase match keywords. The search engine now needs to find matches for either of these highly unlikely exact literal phrases: "Airedale OR terrier" or "Tabby OR cat".
I've never seen an animal called an "Airedale OR terrier" or a "Tabby OR cat".
On the same results page the "results" line displays a different incorrect query:
Airedale | terrier | Tabby | cat
This search would look for results with any of these kewords: Airedale or terrier or Tabby or cat.
Click the Advanced News search link to go back to the Advanced News search page.
In the with at least one of the words field a third inconsistent query is displayed:
Airedale | terrier Tabby | cat
This query has now deleted the OR between the terms Airedale | terrier and Tabby | cat and displays "|" symbols that probably should not appear in the with at least one of the words field.
In the Advanced News search page, click search. Now the search box on the results page displays this bug:
Airedale OR | OR terrier OR Tabby OR | OR cat
On the same page, the results line displays another different and incorrect query:
Airedale | OR terrier | Tabby | OR cat
The Google Advanced News has added many bugs to the original query in the with at least one of the words field which was this:
"Airedale terrier" "Tabby cat"
Note that these bugs are different from the bugs I mentioned here:
Here is my original SETI research.
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
Sunday, January 3, 2010
Google Advanced Web Search bug
The Google Advanced Web search page has several bugs.
Let's say you are searching for information about green peppers or red tomatoes or yellow bananas. In the ordinary Google Web search enter this query:
"green pepper" OR "red tomato" OR "yellow banana"
Click search. The results display Web sites referring to green peppers, red tomatoes, or yellow bananas.
The bug appears if on the results page you click the Advanced Search link.
The Advanced Search query builder comes up with this bug:
| red-tomato | yellow-banana "green pepper"
The leftmost space and " |" symbol do not have any meaning. The query now requires either a "red tomato" or a "yellow banana" and always requires a "green pepper".
If you click search, display the results, and again click the Advanced Search link, the Advanced Search page comes up again with another incorrect query:
| yellow-banana green-pepper "red tomato"
All of the terms have now been made exact required phrases.
Repeat the process and you get this bug:
green-pepper red-tomato "yellow banana"
The Advanced Search page has quite seriously departed from the original query:
"green pepper" OR "red tomato" OR "yellow banana"
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