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Repeated / Duplicate results #360

Closed GoogleCodeExporter closed 8 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Do a search on the sample site 
(http://www.google.com/uds/samples/apidocs/helloworld.html) for "bob 
barker" (without quotation marks)
2. Click on the icon for the Web results to "show all results"
3. Note result number 4 (from www.imbd.com)
4. Click the link at the bottom to get the next page of results
5. Note that result number 2 on this page is a repeat of result number 4 
on the first page.

That's one example, that demonstrates the problem right now, but it might 
change.  It's not hard to find others.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
I expect each result to appear once, but instead I'm seeing results 
repeated.  I found this same problem on multiple Web, Image, Video, etc 
searches.  I've even seen examples where the same result is repeated right 
next to each other on the same page.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
I see it with your sample code and my code as well (which I think is the 
latest)

Please provide any additional information below.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by timwh...@gmail.com on 10 Dec 2009 at 2:22

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
I've encountered this when querying for "sparkfun" (without quotation marks) at 
news. 

For the initial search, using
http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/search/news?v=1.0&q=sparkfun&rsz=large&
start=0,
it returns 4 pages (based on responseData.cursor.pages) with estimated result 
count
of 25. 

From there, we could expect that there are more results. 

However, upon querying for the next page, using
http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/search/news?v=1.0&q=sparkfun&rsz=large&
start=8,
it returns the exact results from the initial search but this time there is 1 
page
available (based on responseData.cursor.pages) with estimated result count of 8.

Original comment by bea%idey...@gtempaccount.com on 15 Jan 2010 at 6:28

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
Any help or hope of fixing this?  When it happens it appears to be a pretty 
major 
fail.  Thanks!

Original comment by timwh...@gmail.com on 15 Jan 2010 at 1:14

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
The attached file demonstrates local searchs show the same problem. 
In this case there are 20+ real results. The initial 8 results and the second 
set of
8 results return correctly, but the third set (start=16) is a repeat of the 
second.
Looks like this is a general problem with several kinds of searches

Original comment by BryanBin...@gmail.com on 8 Apr 2010 at 4:52

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GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
Folks, I'm shocked and disappointed that such a serious flaw as this has not 
been
addressed!

I just tried again in your AJAX demo
(http://www.google.com/uds/samples/apidocs/helloworld.html)  And the 8th (end of
first page) and 9th (beginning of second page) were the same result for 
'android'

Similar duplications exist frequently in other search types.

Does Google not consider this a defect?

Original comment by timwh...@gmail.com on 21 Apr 2010 at 7:38

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
I just found another of these errors, this time in image search, and you can 
see it
at the AJAX demo listed above.  In a search for 'soccer tricks tutorial' 
(without
quotes), the third result on the second page of 8 is the same as the second 
result on
the third page of eight.

Original comment by timwh...@gmail.com on 23 Apr 2010 at 1:58

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago

Original comment by jscud.w...@gmail.com on 28 Jul 2010 at 1:23

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
I'm not able to reproduce any of these listed errors anymore.  I'm marking this 
as closed, but if someone sees it again, let us know.

Please keep in mind that search results are always changing and that similar 
(and sometimes identical) results could show up more than once in a set of 
results.  This should be a rare occurrence, though.

Original comment by adam.fel...@gtempaccount.com on 20 Dec 2010 at 8:10