Sometimes I want to check the exact number of pages indexed in Google for some query. You know how it goes – you enter a query, it says “Results 1 – 10 of about 2468 gazillions“, then when you page forward enough, the number goes slightly down to, say, 37 results. Trouble is, very quickly Google thinks I’m a bot and blocks me:
Now, it’s quite clear Google has to fight tons of spammers and SEO people who bomb them with automatic queries. But that’s what CAPTCHAs are for, isn’t it? well, for some reason Google often saves on them, and instead provides you with the excellent service of referral to CNET to get some antivirus software. Dumb.
The amazing part is that you can get this from a single, well-defined, world-peace-disrupting query, for allintitle:”design”. Booh!
2 responses so far ↓
karmona // February 13, 2009 at 12:48 pm |
This is a very nice fish you caught here Mr. Egozi… But may I ask why did you look for ‘design’ all in title from the beginning? ha??
Ofer Egozi // February 14, 2009 at 9:52 am |
And in quotes, mind you! without quotes it works well, but with quotes? how dare I!?