Search results and a giant space

Discussion in 'All Other Search Engines' started by Mia, Feb 8, 2005.

  1. #1
    Has anyone ever noticed that some searches on Google end up with a giant space between results sometimes. As an example: http://home.mia.net/~jeremy/ebay/ebay.jpg

    What causes this? Is there a way to get this to happen purposely? It would be a great way to capitalize on search exposure.
     
    Mia, Feb 8, 2005 IP
  2. nevetS

    nevetS Evolving Dragon

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    It's a long url. That one had me going for a while too. Any time the URL is too long, it breaks it up with a space so it will wrap on smaller windows.
     
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  3. Mia

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    Interesting.. Seems like a bug on the search end of things. You would think that Google could find a way to avoid this by truncating an URL in excess of X characters.
    Thanx.
     
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    The link still works. It's just the display text. Thin out your window and you'll see the benefit that it provides by wrapping. Not a huge problem - in fact, never a problem for me at the resolutions I run, but for phones and pdas that go straight to google.com it is a nice thing not to have a horizontal scroll bar.
     
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  5. Mia

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    Not sure what the benefit is. I am at 1024 X 768 on my iBook. I am mirroring my screens and just moved Firefox to my other monitor at 1280 x 1024 and see an obvious difference. Still seems like a bug that could be fixed by truncating the link. 1024 X 768 is hardly a PDA or Phone in terms of screen resolution.

    Anyway, thank you for the explanation. This explains why I do not see this all the time. I am usually at 1600 X 1200 at work. At home on my iBook where I spend most of my moblie time around the house I am at the lower resolution.

    Thanx again!
     
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    strange man, never saw thi sbefore
     
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