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m joined January 13, 2008 (logged-in March 11, 2020) <beez> Bitching where bitching is due -- and often where it is not.
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posted December 23, 2009
A search for the phrase
exercise bike clearance is the quintessential example of
Google fail pertaining to its not being able to properly tell when a page has useful content, and the result of Google's answer to the question:
when does a page exist?
The fail is caused by web servers with dynamic content not returning a visible error request to a client, but instead returning a
HTTP 200 response indicating that the page worked as expected. This is an expected result. However,
Google doesn't seem to know that these pages aren't useful.