Google Search No Results Found Fishing Game Gone Fishing

Sep 26, 2022 - 7:31 am 1 — by
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Google Fishing Game No Results Found

A year ago, last November, Google started to show this GIF of a fishing bot of some sort when Google returned no results. Well, sometime in the past weeks or so, Google stopped showing this fishing man.

Here is what it looked like:

Google Fishing Game No Results Found

Here is what I see today:

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Yep, no fishing man.

I am not sure if this is temporary or Google decided to give this fishing man a break.

In any event, I spotted this in the comments area over here.

Forum discussion at Black Hat World.

Note: This was pre-written and scheduled to be posted today, I am currently offline for Rosh Hashanah.

UPDATE: And now the fishing man thing is back.

 

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