[thelist] [OT] Breaking Google...

John C Bullas jcbullas at nildram.co.uk
Thu Oct 23 01:30:56 CDT 2003


At 22:32 22/10/2003, Rob Smith wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Sorry for the OT; I posted a free tip a few days ago so I'm pared up.
>
>I broke Google's search engine. Just type:
>
>" <any text> ' <any text> "

NOPE

"fred ' fred" gave me a reply

FB

you might have caught the server with its pants down?
unlikely something such as a standard keyboard character
would "crash" such an eminent organ...

BTW for those that don't know, search for....

weapons of mass destruction

at a fresh google search screen

hit "feeling lucky"...

FB


>You get 8 javascript error messages. I think its Just the single quote
>inside the double quote that's messing it up.
>
>Oh well.
>
>Rob Smith



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