How to break your favorite search engine

[finite automaton]

I found this out accidentally today by searching for stuff. Go to your favorite search engine and do a search for the following string:

sql create table not null

I've experimented with the string, and "sql create table xx" where xx is anything will break your favorite search engine. It's quite interesting, I think.

 

[Beev]

I think I'm doing it wrong

 

[Riverhound777]

Nothing odd here.

 

[Kelemvor]

Got lots of SQL tutorial sites.

 

[finite automaton]

The internet is going to make a liar out of me

I swear, I tried the query on google, yahoo, and ask.com and every time I got a "Page could not be displayed error", but the search engines worked fine with other queries.

<-Owned.

 

[lozina]

sounds like your router or ISP is playing tricks with you

 

[TruePaige]

Nothing odd here.

 

[finite automaton]

Proof that I'm not insane:


http://img112.imageshack.us/img112/9231/testcu1.jpg

 

[TruePaige]

Originally posted by: finite automaton
Proof that I'm not insane:


http://img112.imageshack.us/img112/9231/testcu1.jpg

Photoshop.

Nah I'm J/K.

Are you at work? Home? More information?

 

[finite automaton]

Originally posted by: TruePaige

Originally posted by: finite automaton
Proof that I'm not insane:


http://img112.imageshack.us/img112/9231/testcu1.jpg

Photoshop.

Nah I'm J/K.

Are you at work? Home? More information?

I am at work...

 

[CasioTech]

google surpasses all that.

 

[nakedfrog]

I'm relatively certain it was your connection or something. SQL injection wouldn't cause a "Cannot find server or DNS" error.

 

[Snapster]

Maybe you broke your ISP's spying/logging table and as such it wasn't able to return your page. And yes, connection issue.

 

[Adul]

its not the search engines that are breaking here.

 

[alkemyst]

plus why the fuck would you keep on doing it/try to share the information to bring the sites down?

 

[djdawn]

However.. I have it on great authority that if you type google, into google, you can break the internet. So please, don't try it, not even for a joke.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKAq_FNHh0k

 

[RichUK]

Originally posted by: finite automaton
Proof that I'm not insane:


http://img112.imageshack.us/img112/9231/testcu1.jpg

Umm, that's not proof.

 

[Beattie]

You just got unlucky. There's nothing about that query that would cause something to break. It's just a string. SQL injection stuff that might cause some apps to break via their input fields usually have quotes and semicolons in them.

 

[funkymatt]

Originally posted by: djdawn
However.. I have it on great authority that if you type google, into google, you can break the internet. So please, don't try it, not even for a joke.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKAq_FNHh0k

heh, i love that show!

 

[RichardE]

Results 1 - 10 of about 317,000 for sql create table not null. (0.16 seconds)

 

[BW86]

Originally posted by: RichardE
Results 1 - 10 of about 317,000 for sql create table not null. (0.16 seconds)

this thread = fail

 

[potato28]

It's IE telling you to get a better browser.

 

[FDF12389]

Originally posted by: potato28
It's IE telling you to get a better browser.

Indeed.

 

[phonefreak]

This is a weird issue, I wish I knew more about programming.

 

[MisterJackson]

Originally posted by: alkemyst
plus why the fuck would you keep on doing it/try to share the information to bring the sites down?

WHEW!!! I'm so glad you showed up! I wondered when the internets police were gonna show and stop this madness. I see they sent their finest orifficer!