Google raises search word limit
24 January 2005
Google has reportedly increased the maximum number of terms allowed in a search query to 32.
Postings on ResearchBuzz and Google Blogoscoped claim that the search giant has increased its 10-word query significantly for its main search service but the old limit remains in place for Google Groups and Google News.
Many other leading search engines, such as Yahoo, Jeeves and MSN, place no word limit on queries.
Google users are also calling on the company to remove its 101kb page cut-off limit on searches.
A statement on ResearchBuzz reports: ""AH! I see. They have a new query limit. After putting in a goony large query, I got the following error message:
"'sixty' (and any subsequent words) was ignored because we limit queries to 32 words."
Google Blogoscoped lists reasons why the higher limit could be crucial, such as searching for quotes from a text or excluding a lot of words from a search.
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