google.co.il is broken
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November 13th, 2002 19:00 (Israel time)
Since November 8th or 9th, google.co.il is broken. Below you can see screenshots of search results.
I have tried to contact Google, sent the message to several people who have forwarded it to Google.
I was cotacted by a Google director who promissed to pass my message to the Google engineering team.
I have prepared this page for the Google engineers but didn't hear anything from any of them.
I have posted a message in google.public.support.general but got no official response.

A day before I have noticed the problem, Tara Calishain published the following news item in ResearchBuzz: "Google's added two country-specific domains: Poland (http://www.google.pl) and Thailand (http://www.google.co.th/). That brings the number of country-specific domains that Google offers to 36."
Maybe this caused the problem in google.co.il

As of now, google.co.il is still broken.



Search text = "חנן כהן" (my name in Hebrew)
All search results - no title, no cache link, no search term in context.





Same search as above, a few hours later.
Search text = "חנן כהן" (my name in Hebrew)
First search result - title text is "no title", no cache link, no search term in context.





Search text = "מעריב" (a name of a major newspaper)
First search result - no title, no search term in context.
Second search result - title text is "no title", no cache link
Third result - same as second result





Search text = "סקס" (sex in Hebrew)
Totally unrelated directory categories
All search results - no title, no cache link, no search term in context.





Search text = "שתיל" (a name of a website I manage)
First search result - the title is taken from the name of the site in the directory and not from the real title of the page.
Second search result - title text is "no title", no cache link, no search term in context.


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