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[MIMIC]

The word "make."

When I try to do a search for that word, I'm greeted by the familiar "the page cannot be displayed."

Why is this word being discriminated against? He's just as useful as the rest of his friends in Dictionaria.

 

[boredJonathan]

Nay

But I'm more curious what you were searching the word "make" for.

 

[MIMIC]

Nay

But I'm more curious what you were searching the word "make" for.

Nay as in "no, this word is searchable," or nay as in "it's not just me"?

I was trying to search on how to make something (which I thought would be posted here) and through process of elimination, it was the word "make" that was the culprit...putting a brick wall in my query.

 

[boredJonathan]

Nay as in "no, this word is searchable," or nay as in "it's not just me"?

The former, not the later.


The real question is why though? Google allows for a search of the word make. You get a very generalized list, but with more input you'd obviously get better results.

Actually, I should state that I never actually got an error message when searching GAF for "make". FireFox just reloads the same search page. Very strange.

 

[Greenpanda]

Actually, I should state that I never actually got an error message when searching GAF for "make". FireFox just reloads the same search page. Very strange.

Yeah, I just tried searching for "make" in Firefox and got the same result. Wacky.

 

[MIMIC]

I'm just glad I'm not the only one who gets something irregular.

I would have posted this earlier, but I just thought that the search function was offline or something (but stupid me didn't think to search for different words :lol)

 

[duderon]

Opera says "connection closed by remote server"

...










:eek

 

[Kabuki Waq]

maybe you have stumbled onto somehting that is bigger than us all.................

 

[boredJonathan]

QUICK! Find the rest of the words we can't search for! Surely it spells out the location of the Nazi Gold!

 

[Fifty]

This doesn't make any sense. I think we've met our maker.




"Louie Anderson" is however searchable.


Let me make my departure from this thread.

 

[Manabanana]

Safari can't open the page: blah blah blah blah.

The hell?

 

[Hitman]

QUICK! Find the rest of the words we can't search for! Surely it spells out the location of the Nazi Gold!

:lol

 

[MIMIC]

I think we've met our maker.

But "maker" IS searchable.

 

[Kon Tiki]

That happens to me with other words. I think 'GOTY' or 'Halo' was one of those words. Either that or I am too tired to think.

 

[dog$]

One thing I'd really like it a list of the "too common" words (excluding the obvious ones, like articles of speech or 3-character-or-less words) according to GAF's search engine, so that I know not to include them in my queries and have to wait 59 seconds to try again.

Are all prepositions too common?

 

[BuG]

Whenever I search for "nintendo" I get that Cannot find server page.

 

[MIMIC]

Whenever I search for "nintendo" I get that Cannot find server page.

Same here.

 

[boredJonathan]

So.. we have "make" and "nintendo"....

Damn, 3rd party is searchable.

 

[slayn]

perhaps those words have too many results and the database/server can't handle it?

 

[slayn]

to add evidence to my theory, I just tried searching 'game' and got page can not be displayed.

 

[MIMIC]

perhaps those words have too many results and the database/server can't handle it?

You're probably right; "game" has the same result.

 

[Raw64life]

"years" is also unsearchable for me.