Google search crashes when searching “how many emojis on iOS”

Re:Google search crashes when searching “how many emojis on ... by samwillis on Sunday October 16, 2022 @03:24AM (#33221804)

My guess is that it will be a problem with handling Unicode in some way. There will be a page on emojipedia with some Unicode emojis in the title or description that Google can’t handle while trying to extract the text to display a result.

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Re:Google search crashes when searching “how many emojis on ... by Manu40 on Sunday October 16, 2022 @03:46AM (#33221911)

I'm curious if we can weaponize this to take down google. lol.

Not that we should... but curiosity does lead to some interesting finds sometimes.

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Re:Google search crashes when searching “how many emojis on ... by BiteCode_dev on Sunday October 16, 2022 @04:09AM (#33221990)

It's the opposite. You can weaponize it to kill other sites SEO by spamming the offending emoji in them.

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Re:Google search crashes when searching “how many emojis on ... by tchaffee on Sunday October 16, 2022 @04:16AM (#33222021)

It's both. A broken Google result page is a lost opportunity for ad revenue for Google.

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Re:Google search crashes when searching “how many emojis on ... by noduerme on Sunday October 16, 2022 @05:26AM (#33222343)

> Not that we should

relax with the disclaimers, I think we're all on the same side.

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Re:Google search crashes when searching “how many emojis on ... by amelius on Sunday October 16, 2022 @06:58AM (#33222690)

> curious if we can weaponize this to take down google. lol.

I was thinking more of accessing the Google search binary or source code.

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Re:Google search crashes when searching “how many emojis on ... by rasz on Sunday October 16, 2022 @04:03AM (#33221966)

>Unicode emojis in the title or description

or url, or some other edge case like https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2022/10/14/there-is-a-tab-in-my-...

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