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A comment on Ask HN: Why does Google put the query in the URL hash instead of query string?. Parent comment

Re:Ask HN: Why does Google put the query in the URL hash ins... by ww520 on Monday January 09, 2017 @02:15AM (#13354599)
That's pretty neat. Didn't know that. Thanks!
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Re:Ask HN: Why does Google put the query in the URL hash ins... by chrisb on Monday January 09, 2017 @02:53AM (#13354742)
And if you set num=0 then it returns the normal "did not match any documents" page: https://www.google.com/search?num=0&q=temperature+london

Which seems like it could be used to fool someone into thinking there really are no results for a subject.

Or to pretend Google search is broken ;)

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Re:Ask HN: Why does Google put the query in the URL hash ins... by roberthensing on Monday January 09, 2017 @03:20AM (#13354831)
Or tell the truth about the truth ;)

https://www.google.nl/search?num=0&q=the%20truth

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