Google Share URL For Random Number Generator Goes To Metronome

Feb 20, 2018 - 8:06 am 3 by
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Google Metronome

If you go to Google and search for [random number generator] you will be given a box at the top to generate that number. If you try to share that URL to that search result using the share buttons, Google will not take you to that page but instead will take you to a query for [metronome].

Here is a screen shot:

Google Metronome Share Url Wrong

However, the metronome query share URL doesn't take you to the random number generator, so it is just an errore on the other end.

Google Metronome Share Url

Danny Sullivan of Google is aware of the issue and is escalating it to be fixed.

How random. :)

Forum discussion at Twitter.

 

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