Comments on: Google Hates “Design”

By: Steven Bradley

Steven Bradley — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 21:40:55 +0000

Yeah, this does still happen to me at times when I haven’t been searching much. I can understand if it’s at times when I’m searching a lot back to back, but plenty of times I can get the message on my first search of the day.

Odd isn’t it?

By: E Terry

E Terry — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 13:47:57 +0000

I get that message all the time when I put design in quotes. I thought that was a pretty odd error.

It didn’t seem to be a problem with the frequency of queries.

My $0.02

By: Steven Bradley

Steven Bradley — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 18:16:44 +0000

Pretti I think it really was a matter of making too many queries too quickly. It was strange to me how long it took before I stopped getting the error message. It was a few days. It was also odd some of the other and very similar phrases I could still get results for.

You’ll probably have to wait a few days before getting results, but you should get them again.

By: Preeti

Preeti — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 09:37:45 +0000

I too am facing the same problem. But when I copy pasted the query as said by Peter, it worked fine. And when I retype the first quotes, it again gives the error. Its very strange!

By: Steven Bradley

Steven Bradley — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 02:08:32 +0000

Peter it seems to be working for me now. I think it might have been just what Dr. Pete was suggesting. I might have simply tried searching a little too quickly and so Google thought I was automated. I found it odd that it was a few days before the search did work for me, which was longer than expected. It’s all working now, though.

By: Peter

Peter — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 08:53:44 +0000

It seems very veird. I had done a search for intitle:”web design company” and it lists around see below: Results 1 – 10 of about 92,400 for intitle:”web design company”

There may be some sql errors when you do the query, Am I right?

By: Steven Bradley

Steven Bradley — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 00:47:23 +0000

I was originally thinking it was because I had made too many intitle: queries too quickly, but the odd thing was I could still search all day on intitle: as long as design wasn’t included inside quotes. I was able to search successfully for inanchor: too.

The search works without the quotes and I even tried removing a letter or two.

“desig”
“desin”

Both work. It’s only on the intitle: search; only when the full word design is used; only when quotes are wrapped around the phrase. Different tenses of “design” seem to get the error message too. “Designed” for example.

Very strange.

Did you get the same error message?

By: Dr. Pete

Dr. Pete — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 23:32:26 +0000

That’s an interesting error message. I read it as suggesting that maybe that query has been abused somehow, so they’re blocking it.

The variations of “design” seemed to work with inurl:, for whatever that’s worth.