A big bug in Google

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Published Tuesday, October 07, 2003 10:33 PM by RoyOsherove
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Tuesday, October 07, 2003 6:55 PM by Pieter Visser

# re: A big bug in Google

Try searching for vb.net - YOu would expect to get lots and lots of results, but you get none!
Tuesday, October 07, 2003 7:49 PM by Seth Finkelstein

# VB.NET isn't a bug - need "VB.NET"

Searching for vb.net itself isn't a bug.

That's a website, so you just get the website.

Instead, search quote-vb.net-quote

That is, "vb.net" WITH the quotes.

Then it's a phrase, and should work.
Wednesday, October 08, 2003 5:15 AM by Francois Verbeeck

# re: A big bug in Google

Seth Finkelstein was quickier than i ... Here's the proof. Alwas use quote in your queries to prevent them from being interprated as websites url ...

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=%22vb.net%22
Wednesday, October 08, 2003 5:20 AM by Roy Osherove

# re: A big bug in Google

doh! guess I was a bit quick to post on that one :) thanks for the heads up!
Saturday, April 24, 2004 12:21 PM by McLamb

# re: A big bug in Google

I found another bug you could post, no clue what causes it. It happens when doing a search on my site, http://mclamb.us

Theres this search http://www.google.com/search?q=mclamb.us&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&start=0&sa=N which displays 4 pages, but when you goto page 2 http://www.google.com/search?q=mclamb.us&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&start=10&sa=N it says theres only 3 pages total. I search this everyday waiting for my site to get listed but it doesn't. Could it be on the mysterious last page?