{"id":4121,"date":"2011-07-18T15:58:53","date_gmt":"2011-07-18T14:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.com\/blog\/?p=4121"},"modified":"2011-07-18T13:27:25","modified_gmt":"2011-07-18T12:27:25","slug":"the-slash-that-locked-up-googles-search-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/2011\/07\/the-slash-that-locked-up-googles-search-results\/","title":{"rendered":"The slash that locked up Google&#8217;s search results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not as dramatic as &quot;broke the Internet&quot; (you can only do that if you type &quot;Google&quot; into Google), but a look at how imperfect humans, yes even Marissa Mayer, can break complex systems with a single key. It puts me in mind of the Mars Cliamte Orbiter, which failed to orbit the red planet as the coders mixed up <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.cnn.com\/1999-09-30\/tech\/9909_30_mars.metric.02_1_climate-orbiter-spacecraft-team-metric-system?_s=PM:TECH\">metric with imperial<\/a> measurements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not as dramatic as &quot;broke the Internet&quot; (you can only do that if you type &quot;Google&quot; into Google), but a look at how imperfect humans, yes even Marissa Mayer, can break complex systems with a single key. It puts me in mind of the Mars Cliamte Orbiter, which failed to orbit the red planet as the coders mixed up metric with imperial measurements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[25],"tags":[2698,103,1089,2696,2697],"class_list":["post-4121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-link-log","tag-bug","tag-google","tag-it-crowd","tag-jen","tag-slash","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Gl0-14t","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}