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It seems that this site (emojipedia.org) broke the Google. "how many emojis on ios -inurl:emojipedia.org" trying to exclude other sites does not work: how ma

• trinovantes 4y ago
  I wonder what's so special about that site that is able to break/timeout Google's index
  • Jensson 4y ago
    Maybe they broke the back button so hard that even the google bot can't get out?
  • lupire 4y ago
    Probably a Unicode character whose bytes are misinterpreted by some weakly typed C++ or Java code.
• alphabet9000 4y ago
  searching for "emojipedia.com" breaks it https://www.google.com/search?q=emojipedia.com https://www.google.com/search?q=emojipedia.com
  • thih9 4y ago
    I can't reproduce this one, i.e. this url works fine for me. At the same time I can reproduce the results from the grandparent comment.
  • tcmb 4y ago
    I can reproduce that. Interesting, because the .com site redirects to the .org, and saearching for the org site on Google does not cause the error.
  • samwillis 4y ago
    Yes, however searching for ““emojipedia.com””(quoted exact search) does work.
• soheil 4y ago
  how many emojis on ios inurl:emojipedia.org is slow, but works, while how many emojis on ios still does not work.
  • alpaca128 4y ago
    Maybe it's multiple sites that would individually just cause a slowdown but together push it over the edge? After all (at least for me) it doesn't crash immediately but it more seems to throw an error after a timeout because it keeps loading without result.
• soheil 4y ago
  I think the .com version breaks it.
• mirzap 4y ago
  This site is on multiple domains, so you can try excluding emojipedia entirely (org,com). Works perfectly: how many emojis on ios -emojipedia
• LaRuim 4y ago
  why does it break when using "how many emojis on ios before:1969-12-31" though? what's the website emojipedia got to do with unix epoch time?
  • mirzap 4y ago
    I don't think this filter works correctly since no record existed before that, so google still returns emojipedia result. Check: https://www.google.com/search?q=google%20before%3A1969-12-31 https://www.google.com/search?q=google%20before%3A1969-12-31 this one works: https://www.google.com/search?q=google+before%3A2006-12-31 https://www.google.com/search?q=google+before%3A2006-12-31
• samwillis 4y ago
  My guess is that it will be a problem with handling Unicode in some way. There will be a page on emojipedia with some Unicode emojis in the title or description that Google can’t handle while trying to extract the text to display a result.
  • Manu40 4y ago
    I'm curious if we can weaponize this to take down google. lol. Not that we should... but curiosity does lead to some interesting finds sometimes.
    • BiteCode_dev 4y ago
      It's the opposite. You can weaponize it to kill other sites SEO by spamming the offending emoji in them.
      • tchaffee 4y ago
        It's both. A broken Google result page is a lost opportunity for ad revenue for Google.
    • noduerme 4y ago
      > Not that we should relax with the disclaimers, I think we're all on the same side.
    • amelius 4y ago
      > curious if we can weaponize this to take down google. lol. I was thinking more of accessing the Google search binary or source code.
  • rasz 4y ago
    >Unicode emojis in the title or description or url, or some other edge case like https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2022/10/14/there-is-a-tab-in-my-cookie/ https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2022/10/14/there-is-a-tab-in-my-...