Google Haz Epic FAIL
Posted by jonathan at 10:27am EST on 05/23/2008
It’s rare, but from time to time I will see a search result that, well, sucks.
I know, Google is not perfect, nor will they ever be perfect, but com’n, seriously, this is just out of hand.
Let’s take a look at that query. Searching for “view source chart” and these are the results I get? Great, I indeed did find what I was looking for, but what is this random result?
Nothing even mentioning view, source, or chart within the title, description, or URI of the result. I clicked through to find out why it was listed. Searched in the source of the page “view”, “source”, or “chart”, and nothing really came up that should trigger it as a result.
In fact, the page was a secured page (https), but according to Alexa, the site does get some decent traffic. But still, I’m very confused to why it showed up in the search results.
What do you think?
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Walt Ribeiro
May 23rd, 2008
That shipment of fail picture had me on the floor laughing
Jonathan Dingman
May 23rd, 2008
Hahah, thanks. I saw that and just had to post it.
There’s also another one that is similar, but different, if you’re interested.
Thanks for stopping by! Always great to hear from my readers.
Bryan Villarin
May 23rd, 2008
That’s totally unacceptable. Maybe there should be a link that reports an out-of-place result?
By the way, hilarious FAIL picture!
Jonathan Dingman
May 23rd, 2008
I understand that there may be an error from time to time in the search results, but com’n, that one is completely out of place…
Mark
Nov 3rd, 2008
The View Source Chart author had payloadz listed on her site as her digital download host. Check web archives.
Jonathan Dingman
Nov 4th, 2008
Mark, ok…but how on earth would that make it at all relevant to the search query? It’s a completely insignificant search result and shouldn’t have been shown.