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User	Thread poster: Patricia Rosas a bug in Google? Hits for text NOT containing the searched string ...
Patricia Rosas   United States Local time: 05:51 Spanish to English + ...	Mar 1, 2010 Hi, everybody, In the past few days, I've noticed something very odd with Google (I'm using Google Chrome to do my searches). I type in a phrase, and I get say, 1 million hits, but when I look them, one or two (or in one case, 14) contain the string I used to search, and NONE of the rest of the hits contain it. For example, I just searched on (in quotations) "peer into the actions of". The returned page says there are 290,000 hits. The first two contain that string, but none of the others do (even when I go to the pages that follow). This has happened several times. Has anyone else noticed this? Thanks!! Patricia   Subject: Comment: The contents of this post will automatically be included in the ticket generated. Please add any additional comments or explanation (optional)
Claudio Porcellana   Italy	cheating marketing, may be ... Mar 1, 2010 i.e. the practice to attract traffic at any cost, using semi-cheating ways ... for example, filling websites with tons of non relevant keywords, instead of filling them with useful contents usually Google bans these websites, but there is an undying struggle between good and evil ... Claudio   Subject: Comment: The contents of this post will automatically be included in the ticket generated. Please add any additional comments or explanation (optional)
Patricia Rosas   United States Local time: 05:51 Spanish to English + ... TOPIC STARTER	most are non-commercial sites Mar 1, 2010 Hi, Claudio, It's a possibility, but most of the hits are for non-commercial sites. In any case, isn't the point of embedding extraneous words in commercial sites to get traffic from a search that contains those (extraneous) words? In my case, the string I searched does not appear in the documents or sites that are "hits." Thanks, Patricia   Subject: Comment: The contents of this post will automatically be included in the ticket generated. Please add any additional comments or explanation (optional)
Christel Zipfel   Partial member Italian to German + ...	Same here,,,, Mar 1, 2010 Patricia Rosas wrote: In my case, the string I searched does not appear in the documents or sites that are "hits." Thanks, Patricia Very odd, indeed:-(   Subject: Comment: The contents of this post will automatically be included in the ticket generated. Please add any additional comments or explanation (optional)
Pablo Bouvier   Spain Local time: 14:51 Member German to Spanish + ...	"a bug in Google? Hits for text NOT containing the searched string ..." Mar 1, 2010 Patricia Rosas wrote: Hi, everybody, In the past few days, I've noticed something very odd with Google (I'm using Google Chrome to do my searches). I type in a phrase, and I get say, 1 million hits, but when I look them, one or two (or in one case, 14) contain the string I used to search, and NONE of the rest of the hits contain it. For example, I just searched on (in quotations) "peer into the actions of". The returned page says there are 290,000 hits. The first two contain that string, but none of the others do (even when I go to the pages that follow). This has happened several times. Has anyone else noticed this? Thanks!! Patricia a bad search methode may be? I did the same search in quotations myself just now with google.es and I only got 3 results, this thread included... Try with a + sign before the quote like this: +"peer into the actions of". Maybe it helps. [Editado a las 2010-03-01 21:55 GMT]   Subject: Comment: The contents of this post will automatically be included in the ticket generated. Please add any additional comments or explanation (optional)
Patricia Rosas   United States Local time: 05:51 Spanish to English + ... TOPIC STARTER	thank you, but ... Mar 1, 2010 Pablo Bouvier wrote: not a bug, but a wromg search: please, add a +`sign before the cuote... http://www.google.es/search?q="peer%20into%20the%20actions%20of"&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:es-ES:official&client=firefox-a Pablo, Thank you for the link. I see it goes to a page where the hits are only to the string. However, when I added a plus sign before the quotation mark, it made no difference in what was returned. Are you using Chrome or Firefox? I've never had to use a plus sign before, and I've been doing Google searches for years. Or am I not understanding your instructions? Thank you for taking the time to respond! Patricia   Subject: Comment: The contents of this post will automatically be included in the ticket generated. Please add any additional comments or explanation (optional)
Pablo Bouvier   Spain Local time: 14:51 Member German to Spanish + ...	a bug in Google Mar 1, 2010 Patricia Rosas wrote: Pablo Bouvier wrote: not a bug, but a wrong search: please, add a +`sign before the quote... http://www.google.es/search?q="peer%20into%20the%20actions%20of"&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:es-ES:official&client=firefox-a Pablo, Thank you for the link. I see it goes to a page where the hits are only to the string. However, when I added a plus sign before the quotation mark, it made no difference in what was returned. Are you using Chrome or Firefox? I've never had to use a plus sign before, and I've been doing Google searches for years. Or am I not understanding your instructions? Thank you for taking the time to respond! Patricia Firefox. Sometimes, even a text is quoted it find texts were words are in the text, but separated. Theoretically a + sign tells Google to do an "exact search". Maybe you should try with simple quotes too. If it does not work, I can not help further. [Editado a las 2010-03-01 22:05 GMT]   Subject: Comment: The contents of this post will automatically be included in the ticket generated. Please add any additional comments or explanation (optional)
Patricia Rosas   United States Local time: 05:51 Spanish to English + ... TOPIC STARTER	Doesn't work ... Mar 1, 2010 Pablo Bouvier wrote: Firefox Pablo: This is so strange, but it doesn't work for me--in either Chrome or Firefox. When I type +"peer into the actions of" I get 290,000 hits and only 3 are to that string (it is now, of course, including this thread!). Patricia   Subject: Comment: The contents of this post will automatically be included in the ticket generated. Please add any additional comments or explanation (optional)
Pablo Bouvier   Spain Local time: 14:51 Member German to Spanish + ...	a bug in Google+ Mar 1, 2010 Patricia Rosas wrote: Pablo Bouvier wrote: Firefox Pablo: This is so strange, but it doesn't work for me--in either Chrome or Firefox. When I type +"peer into the actions of" I get 290,000 hits and only 3 are to that string (it is now, of course, including this thread!). Patricia Can you publish the raw link you are using please? I would like to know, if it works with my browsers... Maybe you can try with the link I published with your browsers too. [Editado a las 2010-03-01 22:12 GMT]   Subject: Comment: The contents of this post will automatically be included in the ticket generated. Please add any additional comments or explanation (optional)
Patricia Rosas   United States Local time: 05:51 Spanish to English + ... TOPIC STARTER	I should have done that right off! Mar 1, 2010 Pablo Bouvier wrote: Patricia Rosas wrote: Pablo Bouvier wrote: Firefox Pablo: This is so strange, but it doesn't work for me--in either Chrome or Firefox. When I type +"peer into the actions of" I get 290,000 hits and only 3 are to that string (it is now, of course, including this thread!). Patricia Can you publish the raw link you are using please? I would like to know, if it works with my browsers... Maybe you can try with the link I published with your browsers too. [Editado a las 2010-03-01 22:12 GMT] Here it is: http://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1CHMI_enUS350US351&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=+"peer%20into%20the%20actions%20of"   Subject: Comment: The contents of this post will automatically be included in the ticket generated. Please add any additional comments or explanation (optional)
Patricia Rosas   United States Local time: 05:51 Spanish to English + ... TOPIC STARTER	when I click on your link, it works Mar 1, 2010 When I click on the "raw link" that you posted, it works! I get a TOTAL of only 3 hits...   Subject: Comment: The contents of this post will automatically be included in the ticket generated. Please add any additional comments or explanation (optional)
Lutz Molderings   United Kingdom Local time: 14:51 Member (2007) German to English + ...	same here Mar 1, 2010 I have been experiencing the same problem over the last few days. This is definitely something new...never happened before.   Subject: Comment: The contents of this post will automatically be included in the ticket generated. Please add any additional comments or explanation (optional)
Pablo Bouvier   Spain Local time: 14:51 Member German to Spanish + ...	"a bug in Google? Hits for text NOT containing the searched string ..." Mar 1, 2010 Patricia Rosas wrote: When I click on the "raw link" that you posted, it works! I get a TOTAL of only 3 hits... I am sorry: maybe indeed a bug... I tried your raw link with IE and Firexfox and did some more searchings suppressing information from your raw link to simplify it, but no way. The only thing that occurs to me is that you clean the browser cache memory (cookies, history, etc) and reinitate the machine, but I do not believe this will be useful As a meantime solution you may add my raw link to favorites and write what you are looking for between the quotes, but of course this is a monkey solution... of quite doubtful utility. http://www.google.es/search?q="monkey solution"&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:es-ES:official&client=firefox-a [Editado a las 2010-03-01 22:55 GMT]   Subject: Comment: The contents of this post will automatically be included in the ticket generated. Please add any additional comments or explanation (optional)
Patricia Rosas   United States Local time: 05:51 Spanish to English + ... TOPIC STARTER	I'm relieved to hear this ... Mar 1, 2010 Lutz Molderings wrote: I have been experiencing the same problem over the last few days. This is definitely something new...never happened before. Lutz, I'm sorry you've been experiencing this, too, but I'm glad I'm not the only one! I guess I should try to report it to Google... Thank you, Patricia   Subject: Comment: The contents of this post will automatically be included in the ticket generated. Please add any additional comments or explanation (optional)
Patricia Rosas   United States Local time: 05:51 Spanish to English + ... TOPIC STARTER	thanks again to everyone for responding! Mar 1, 2010 Pablo Bouvier wrote: I am sorry: maybe indeed a bug... I tried your raw link with IE and Firexfox and did some more searchings suppressing information from your raw link to simplify it, but no way. The only thing that occurs to me is that you clean the browser cache memory (cookies, history, etc) and reinitate the machine, but I do not believe this will be useful Pablo, Lutz, and Claudio: Thanks for your help and suggestions! I'll try to contact Google later today... Regards, Patricia   Subject: Comment: The contents of this post will automatically be included in the ticket generated. Please add any additional comments or explanation (optional)
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