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A bug in Google Search has been discovered that breaks search result links when using Safari in macOS if the link contains a plus symbol. For example, if you search for a keyword and one of the search results contains a plus, like when you click on the link it will not do anything.
This was first discovered by a Twitter account belonging to the site wellness-heaven.de, who noticed on around September 28th a significant drop in their traffic from Safari users. Safari Google „+“ sign bug in action — Wellness Heaven (@wellness7) When he reported this issue to, a webmaster trends analyst at Google, Mu responded that it was indeed strange and that he would pass on the bug report. That looks weird, I'll pass it on.
— John (@JohnMu) For those who may have seen a dip in traffic starting around September 28, you should check your analytics software to determine if this is coming from Safari users being unable to click on your links. BleepingComputer has been able to confirm this bug using the search results for Apple on Safari in macOS Sierra. We have also contacted Google for comment regarding this bug, but had not heard back at the time of this publication. Update 10/1/18 11:31PM EST: This bug is also affecting Firefox 61.0.1 in macOS, but appears to be working fine with Chrome 69.
Also broken on Firefox 61.0.1 / Mojave 10.14 (18A391). Factory for mac. Works on Google Chrome 69.0.3497.100 though on the same system oO — Sergiu Gatlan (@serghei) Update: 10/3/18: After discovering the bug, Dr.
Tassilo Keilmann, the CEO of www.wellness-heaven.de, discovered that it was also affecting other browsers. 'I have now reproduced the bug in Firefox (win / mac), Safari (mac) and IE (win),' Keilmann told BleepingComputer via email. 'However, Chrome and Safari iOS are fine.' Today Keilmann posted to his company's Twitter account that the bug has been fixed by Google. Thank you for fixing the '+' bug so quickly!:) I am evaluating now also other domains impacted by the update, to statistically determine (via Analytics data) whether '+' URLs suffered more than others. Note that the js bug persists in safari.
— Wellness Heaven (@wellness7).
No Search Results Outlook For Mac
How to Sort through Mac Spotlight’s Search Results Spotlight doesn’t always guess correctly when it comes to what you’re searching for. In fact, some searches yield more than 20 possible outcomes, and you need to sort through Spotlight’s search results. Spotlight isn’t always going to get the Top Hit right, so it also displays what it considers to be the next 20 most likely matches, are segregated into categories (Applications, Documents, Folders, PDF Documents, Music, Messages, Images, Movies, Bookmarks, and so on). Just click an item to launch or open it. Fortunately, Spotlight’s track record is pretty good.
If Spotlight guesses right, click the Top Hit entry or press Return or Enter to either launch the application in question, open a particular file, or displays the appropriate folder in the Finder. (The shortcut is to press Command and Return to launch the top hit.) When your search yields many possible outcomes, click Show All. Surprisingly enough, clicking Show All doesn’t show you everything. Instead, Show All opens a separate Finder window. The most probable search results in each category are listed, followed by an indication of how many more results are in each group.
Click the more line to scroll through the list of other possible search outcomes. If you get a flood of results and aren’t sure which is the one you’re looking for, Spotlight provides a good spot to use Leopard’s Quick Look feature. Just click the Quick Look icon and, well, have a quick look at the sorted files until you find the proper one. Spotlight is arguably the quickest way to launch an application.
Just start typing its name into the Spotlight search field, and it should show up as the top hit after only a few letters (and sometimes a single keystroke). Press Return to launch the program. Spotlight is able to search so quickly because it indexes, or catalogs, all the files on the computer.
The index is seamlessly updated each time you add, move, modify, copy, or delete a file. Spotlight also automatically rummages through meta data, the information about your data. Digital photographs, for example, typically capture the following metadata: the camera model used to snap the image, the date, the aperture and exposure settings, whether a flash was used, and so on. For example, if a friend e-mails you pictures taken with a Kodak camera, you can quickly find those images by entering the search term Kodak.