For the last month or so (I honestly don't recall when this began, could be longer), I have been experiencing unstable behavior with Google search. Indefinite pauses with the search results grayed out, searching for something similar to what I typed, but messed up/shortened/slightly garbled, indefinite pauses with a blank webpage. Just a bunch of strange behavior, really. Anyone else? If so, it's hard to believe Googlers don't notice, so what gives?
I think it's related to the extra crap they are adding on the results. I did a post on this a couple weeks ago -<p><a href="http://mergy.org/2013/01/what-is-up-with-the-insane-long-google-results-url-now/" rel="nofollow">http://mergy.org/2013/01/what-is-up-with-the-insane-long-goo...</a>
I haven't seen that. But I have seen when clicking on a search result an interminably-long URL pop up in my URL bar that takes far longer to resolve than in the past when searching. And getting the same result twice in Google Books is a matter of luck.
Yeah, ever since they rolled out Google Instant Search. It's never worked right for me. Yes, I restarted my machine. No, I'm not switching from Firefox.