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11 March 2008

We broke Google

 

We broke Google. We didn't mean to. And it wasn't out fault. Everyone wants their website to come out at the top of the list when people search on their name. So when people put 'the word department' into Google, we expect to pop up at the top.

Think again. Due to an as-yet-unknown problem over at Google, searching for us in U.S Google actually reveals results for 'the world department'. Yep, the search engine giant is having trouble differentiating between 'world' and 'word'. If you try the same search on Google.co.uk, we come out top.

Bizarre. But we're assured they're fixing it. They'd better be, or we'll send a couple of agents over there. And they don't want that.