Google Search Results Error

May 14, 2007 at 9:58 am · Filed under SEO

Here’s a bug I discovered while searching the web today. Google rendered wrong URLs’ linking to engadget.com in the search results for “aacs hddvd”. Screenshot

I don’t exacly know what caused this error , there may be problems with my computer* :) or with Google’s Crawlers, Index Servers, or Doc Servers. Who knows?

This problem relates to some of the pages at Engadget.com. Here’s a Google Search result page that displays 4 erroneous URL’s:

Google Engadget Search Errors

See for yourself.
Try searching for site:engadget.com “,%20www.engadget” and aacs hddvd

If some of you know what’s going on, please enlighten me.
* I used both Opera and Firefox for testing.

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2 Comments »

  1. erik said,

    June 10, 2007 @ 4:23 am

    google gets confused by the %20 in the URL. %20 is the URL encoded [space] character. I’m guesseing that’s why the URL doesn’t “link”

  2. joe said,

    June 15, 2007 @ 1:41 am

    looking up how to crack hddvd eh?

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