A Blog On Tracking Failed Search Results: Failed SERPs

Returning quality search results is not easy, Google and Microsoft have teams of people who work on the problem each day. Unfortunately, finding examples of search results that are not ideal is not all that uncommon. To help track these poor search results, Rishabh Singla started a new blog named Failed SERPs. He posts daily […]

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FailReturning quality search results is not easy, Google and Microsoft have teams of people who work on the problem each day.

Unfortunately, finding examples of search results that are not ideal is not all that uncommon. To help track these poor search results, Rishabh Singla started a new blog named Failed SERPs. He posts daily screen shots of examples of how the search results are a failure.

For example, Google returns ten search results but all of them are from YouTube. Another example, the searcher looks for a documentary named The Lost Day and Google finds the missing day instead.

Those are two of many examples and the blogger promises to keep up his work posting examples of failed search results.

Have you recently seen failed search results on Google or Bing? If so, what were they?


About the author

Barry Schwartz
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Barry Schwartz is a technologist and a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land and a member of the programming team for SMX events. He owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics.

In 2019, Barry was awarded the Outstanding Community Services Award from Search Engine Land, in 2018 he was awarded the US Search Awards the "US Search Personality Of The Year," you can learn more over here and in 2023 he was listed as a top 50 most influential PPCer by Marketing O'Clock.

Barry can be followed on X here and you can learn more about Barry Schwartz over here or on his personal site.

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