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How to break your favorite search engine

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finite automaton

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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.
 
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.
 
I'm relatively certain it was your connection or something. SQL injection wouldn't cause a "Cannot find server or DNS" error.
 
Maybe you broke your ISP's spying/logging table and as such it wasn't able to return your page. And yes, connection issue.
 
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.
 
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