Google Search’s Limit

Image of the Day, Search November 7th, 2007 - By Haochi

Sebastian Says:
November 8th, 2007 at 6:49 pm
This must be new. I denfinitely remember pasting whole paragraphs into the search field.

Whyever they did this.
Haochi Says:
November 8th, 2007 at 9:21 pm
A Google search for the phrase “was ignored because we limit queries to 32 words” shows that it’s been around for a couple of years.
Philipp Lenssen Says:
November 9th, 2007 at 6:24 am
Google had a word limit of 10 up until January 2005, when they raised it to the more relaxed 32. (Which was cool especially for the SOAP API, as you’d often hack together longer strings using it… while the SOAP API still worked, that is.)
http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2005-01-22-n48.html
Barry Says:
November 13th, 2007 at 8:03 pm
It’s nice to know this limit.