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Whoops, I Searched Meta

By Robert Campbell on Monday, September 21st, 2009 Print This Post
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Well here is a big whoops I did today messing up every PC on my network. I went to my Google Toolbar, typed in “<title>Home</title>”, and hit enter. I was then quickly punished by Google for making such a search. They don’t like me searching meta tags apparently. If you would like to test it yourself, I would simply suggest, DON’T! I’m still waiting for things to return back to normal.

The Google Screen of Death

So here is the screen I received after making that little search:

google sorry screenshot

Annoyingly it has not gone away yet. I checked the other PCs, even shut them all down in case they were attacking Google without my knowledge. It was the dang search I made. I had used Google seconds prior with no issues, so this made it all to coincidental anyhow.

If you are like me though, and are interested in searching for content by looking at a sites title, then know that there is apparently a correct way to do this. Simply search for your keywords like this when searching a title: “intitle:your search term”. Wish I knew that a couple of hours ago…

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