Thursday, March 22, 2007

Fix and standardize the querying on Google News Archive Search

On Google News if you do a search for shop.org you get some results, which is what you expect. Curiously enough, if you try doing that same search for shop.org on Google News Archive Search (like so), you get: "Your search - shop.org - did not match any documents." You have to put shop.org within quotes in order to get results (like so). Clearly something is broken since shop.org as a search term works on Google News, Google Images, Google Web Search, etc. but not on the Google News Archive Search. Google, I suggest that you fix this bug.

By the way, thanks for adding a link on Google News to Google News Archive Search from the search results. I don't know if that was a result of reading my suggestion a few weeks back or not, but either way I sure do appreciate it as do a whole lot of other Google News users as well.

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