Google site: search command broken, or what?
March 6th, 2008 by Stefan JuhlI was doing some ’site:’ searches on Google earlier today, and got a pretty weird result. Another domain - with absolutely no connection to flipdays.dk, the domain used in the site: command - showed up. And it still does, also from another computer, in another country, I tried it from. This is the search and I get what’s in the screen shot below, so I’m like WTF? Anyone care to explain this?
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March 6th, 2008 at 9:55 pm
I don’t see that result here at my place - I only see 3 pages from your site and nothing more.
Probably just a glitch some where in an algoritm or another kind of bug. Or maybe some of that Ouzo…?
March 6th, 2008 at 10:34 pm
I’d be really scared if Ouzo would have an impact on my SERPs, but hey we never know for sure with Google.
Anyway I checked on google.dk and it doesn’t happen there, so I put a link in the post and on the screen shot with the exact query URL which still returns that results for me.
March 6th, 2008 at 10:51 pm
Nope, doesn’t happen here either.
Did two searches on Google.com, one from a machine in Denmark and one in Germany. Only 3 hits returned, all of them for flipdays.dk.
March 7th, 2008 at 12:27 am
I still get it. Google.com resolves to 64.233.183.104 from here.
Here’s link directly to the search on 64.233.183.104
March 7th, 2008 at 9:52 am
I get it too using that link. If I change the hl= from en to da the error is gone.
Normal search from my part of ouzu land does not show the error - only your link.
March 7th, 2008 at 1:37 pm
Yea includes krohotel.dk for me too, that’s weird!
March 10th, 2008 at 9:51 pm
Yeah, I was seeing this last week on English language “site:” queries from a USA IP.
March 11th, 2008 at 12:02 am
I’m “happy” that it’s not only me who gets the weird results.. And kind of funny that Google can fuck up such a query!
March 16th, 2008 at 11:44 pm
Someone reported a similar occurence with a regular search in the indented results.
http://www.brentcsutoras.com/2008/03/14/google-indented-results-from-a-different-domain/
March 17th, 2008 at 8:58 am
Interesting. So it seems to be a broader problem.