Comments on: Bugs? Especially international bugs..

By: Marco

Marco — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 12:56:22 +0000

When a description was made like this: keyword1,keyword2,keyword3 instead of keyword1, keyword2, keyword3 the description in the SERPS goes behind the sponsored links on the right side. Its a authority website which uses description and keyword tag both the same on a subdomain. IE8 1024px is giving this problem, but in FF it looks fine. Google Netherlands knows about it but i got back a aswer like this: It’s a adwords problem, please visit…
No its a IE CSS problem in natural serps. 3/4 year back i already reported this, but now it’s back again.

By: José Granada

José Granada — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 08:19:32 +0000

Hi Matt,

I have noticed a very annoying bug in the results of a Google search using the Google site in Spanish (however, it seems that the bug also appears in the English Google site). If you type for instance “hechas de uretano” (the quotes should be included in the search string) you will be directed to the following web address with the results:

http://www.google.es/#hl=es&source=hp&q=%22hechas+de+uretano%22&btnG=Buscar+con+Google&meta=&aq=f&oq=%22hechas+de+uretano%22&fp=120d73706d7f3736

This page shows that there are aprox. 9,020,000 results. However, if you scroll down to the bottom of the page, you will see that only appear 5 results page!

In fact, if you click on the last page (results page 5), you will see that the count of results is now 24. Even if you include the omitted results you will not get more than 106 results!

How is this possible??? I mean, why are 9,020,000 results reported if there are just 24-106 results? We use Google in our work to decide which word combinations are more usual and this issue is very annoying for us.

Many thanks for your help and if you have any question about this issue, please do not hesitate to contact me!

Jose

By: diyism

diyism — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 05:48:58 +0000

I’m trying to export my Google Notebooks to Google Docs.

In Google Notebook I go to Manage Notebooks -> Export -> Document (Export this notebook to Google Docs)

I get a page with the title “500 Server Error” and the text:
Server Error
The server had trouble completing your request, but this is probably a temporary error. Please try again in 30 seconds.
This has been happening for a month now, so I think the advice to wait 30 seconds is a bit optimistic.

By: Bertrand Lorent

Bertrand Lorent — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 16:44:29 +0000

This is not a very critical bug, but I can’t help seeing it every time I log in!

On Belgium’s google home page google.be we can select one of our 3 official languages + english. When the current language is “Nederlands”, the first letter of the word “français” is lower-case, while the other are not. This is not the case when the current language is french, english or german.

By: Mirek Komárek

Mirek Komárek — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:00:24 +0000

If you are searching in google maps for example Černošice, V Lavičkách (village, street) it will found V Lavičkách, 252 28 Cernotín – correct zip code, correct street, wrong village name. It is a bit confusing in some applications like this katastr2.appspot.com

By: nick

nick — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:45:02 +0000

massive scary google bug:

I share a macbook with my girlfriend. We both have separate accounts on the macbook but sometimes we log in to our google web services using the other person’s account.

On her account when she loads igoogle it shows her name as logged in in the upper right and all her gadgets and news and stuff. But one of the gadgets is google chat. The crazy bug is that it has all my contacts and is signed in as me! My google is all set up in the USA and all her stuff is set up in France. When I go to http://www.gmail.com it logs in as me. When I go to igoogle.com it logs in as me (with my gadgets and everything) but when I go to igoogle.fr it logs in as her with all her gadgets but my contacts and stuff!

Yucky ugly scary bug!

By: Claudio

Claudio — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 15:05:07 +0000

Currently the localized version of google at google.ch (switzerland) is the only version of google I can reach.
If I try to use any service on google.com it is so sluggish that it is unusable. This includes the webmail.
IMAP instead _does_ work.

I had to switch to yahoo for many services, including search, since the toolbar uses google.com.
These problems have been going on since at least yesterday.

By: John Buczek

John Buczek — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 06:19:23 +0000

I live in the Philippines. Google.com.ph is composed in Tagalog by default even though that dialect is native to only about a third of the population. When using the Google search bar in Firefox for a search, there is no obvious way to switch to English.

I know that I can go to

Google.com.ph/en

but that cancels the convenience of the google search bar on browsers.

Should be an easy matter to fix.

By: Borislav

Borislav — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 08:12:14 +0000

Here is one bug:

I am adding a new account to my google analytics.

At the first step where I type the domain name there is field for choosing of time zone:
“Time zone country or territory:”

My country is Bulgaria, so I find it and choose it, but it is strange that it says “Bulgaria GMT+3″. And whole territory of Bulgaria is GMT+2, not 3.

By: Sidny Smith

Sidny Smith — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 22:04:56 +0000

the autocomplete feature is great…
i also like the ‘Define:’ command
but they’re not properly integrated; the autocomplete drop-down suggestions omits the colon, thus achieving an undesirable result.