Comments on: Smaller issues

By: Stoletov

Stoletov — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 13:15:35 +0000

Searching for ‘diy shops’ gives ’see results for homebase’ … homebase is just one of many DIY shops in the UK, so this is probably erroneous.

By: david koblas

david koblas — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 16:16:10 +0000

We’ve got a problem where our doman name is converted into a JIS encoded domain name.

The query:
site:wink.com -site:blog.wink.com

vs.

http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3A%EF%BC%B7%EF%BD%89%EF%BD%8E%EF%BD%8B.com

Yeilds a handful of results 8, however the query for the JIS encoded version of our domain name yeilds 287 results. The bug of course is why we’ve got multiple version of our domain name in the system (none of which should be in JIS encoding) and also it would be nice if site:wink.com would pull both domain names (since it’s JIS encoded ASCII).

There of course is a deeper issue about why we don’t have the ~30,000 pages in the index, but that’s not necessarily a “bug”.

Thanks.

By: Ian

Ian — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 09:54:24 +0000

Klaus Johannes Rusch – Actually it’s correct.

The reason is that 0 degrees Celsius is not absolute zero, that’s zero degrees Kelvin (about -273.15 degrees C).

So 3 degrees C is actually (273.15+3=276.15) degrees K.

So twice 3 degrees C is twice 276.15 degrees K which is is 552.3 K.

Then converting back to degrees C (by subtracting 273.15 degrees) you get 279.15 degrees C.

By: Klaus Johannes Rusch

Klaus Johannes Rusch — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 22:03:26 +0000

Query:
(3 celsius + 3 celsius) in celsius

Result:
(3 Celsius) + (3 Celsius) = 279.15 degrees Celsius

3+3=279.15? Not really

By: Ian

Ian — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 11:55:11 +0000

Ok here’s a weird one. Google Webmaster Tools tells me that there are no pages from the site in Google’s index… er, except there are (even though all those except the root page are supplemental). So something there is wrong. I have preferred domain set up if that helps. URL supplied in case it is helpful.

By: George

George — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 00:45:30 +0000

Have a look at this search:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=buy+viagra&btnG=Google+Search

and let me know if this is what we can expect. Thousands of EDU spam pages. Is this a new Google bomb?

By: Karl

Karl — Sun, 07 Jan 2007 22:36:22 +0000

Hi!

Chris S said: This one’s been around for a long time:

If you search for “link:www.everylastpenny.com” Google returns 26 results.
If you search for “link: http://www.everylastpenny.com” Google returns 173 results.

?some one saw: that the in second example google

takes link: www. as link%3A+www.

where comes that + from?

but it explains why link: www.
and link+www. brings up the same numbers of links

Greetings

Karl Heinz

By: Andy

Andy — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 11:24:06 +0000

Hi Matt -

There’s a strange bug in calculator, when summing two temperatures of different units:

1f + 1c

Apparently, the result is 256.927778 Celcius!

Cheers,

Andy

By: George

George — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 23:14:21 +0000

It kind of have to do with the Search results but also with the Sitemaps in the web master tools.
When I set my preferred domain to use www then for some reason non-www pages started to show up, something that never happened before. Now I don’t know what to do. It seems that the numbers of visitors have gone down noticably, but I don’t know if that is the reason.
Hoping that it haven’t affected my rankings and other stuff.
Like I said, not sure if it is a bug in the search or not but needs to be looked at.

By: David Garcia

David Garcia — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 15:13:56 +0000

As a C# programmer, I’m constantly searching for queries that contain “.NET” but Google doesn’t seem to notice the very important “.” in front. I usually resort to changing “.NET” to “ASP.NET” or “C#” to get the results I’m looking for.

http://www.google.com/search?q=.net+commands