Entries from Search Engine Roundtable tagged with 'google bug'

February 3rd, we reported Google Won't Let Some Searchers Turn Off "Safe Search" Filter, well, almost two months later, the issue is still not resolved. In fact, Google cannot find any issue. The other day, Googler Skylar said he was...

Posted on March 27, 2009 1:18 AM

Ever conduct a search at Google and be presented with a "We're sorry" error from Google? The image on the right is what you would see and Google thinks you are a machine conducting automated queries and they want to...

Posted on February 12, 2009 9:30 AM

Sometime yesterday, Firefox 2.x users were unable to use Google's search box, as they typically do. They would go to Google.com, enter in a search query and hit enter. Then nothing would happen. Really, nothing would happen. There is a...

Posted on February 6, 2009 8:34 AM

I have seen two smallish thread, relative to a normal Google update thread, that discusses changes in the Google search results. A WebmasterWorld thread and DigitalPoint Forums thread has discussion around some changes being noticed in Google. Now, typically these...

Posted on November 25, 2008 8:18 AM

Over the weekend, Webmasters started to notice major changes with the Google search results. Most of those changes are documented in an incredibly long but only three-day long thread at WebmasterWorld. I decided to wait on reporting on this thread...

Posted on November 3, 2008 7:14 AM

About 15 days ago, I reported on the Google Yo-Yo Effect. This yo-yoing is a lot different then the typical ups and downs of Google's rankings. I know many of you are going to say, Google's results always differ. Trust...

Posted on July 29, 2008 8:04 AM

There appears to be this bug lingering around since August 2006 that I did not fully look into today. A site that is hosted outside of the US, let's say, in the UK or Australia, with .com TLDs, are indexed...

Posted on January 4, 2007 7:21 AM

A WebmasterWorld thread asks why is Google showing him a really long description for some of the pages of his site. I reported back a while ago at Search Engine Watch a post by Philipp where he spotted this over...

Posted on November 9, 2006 7:11 AM

Several WebmasterWorld members report conducting a search on a keyword phrase at Google.com and being presented with results in the form of URLs only, for all 10 results. This is not just reported for one obscure query, but several other...

Posted on October 23, 2006 8:04 AM

When I mean serious, I mean serious. Google Maps has a huge bug. And by bug, I don't mean a technical glitch, I mean a real bug. Take a look at this map of Germany, zoomed in, and you will...

Posted on September 28, 2006 10:03 AM

On September 12th, I reported that Google's Site Operator Shows Sites Off Domain. Matt Cutts replied to this post saying, I think I commented on this in a comment over on my blog--I think once the supplemental results folks saw...

Posted on September 21, 2006 7:31 AM

I received an email from the fine folks over at the Alacra Blog asking Is Google [site:] command broken? I did my own tests and it seemed fine when I tested it, but they had proof, an image with the...

Posted on September 12, 2006 7:29 AM