Error

An interesting thing to feed a search engine is the word "error".

It's a very simple, single word.

You say, a good search engine will know how to handle all those "mysql error", "php error", "error page not found", etc etc.

Well, it's pretty interesting to see how well each behaves to that.

Some just give you in their top results "Error! Reason: File 'index.html was not found!" (right, this is the second result on a popular French engines). Some do it as their top result (Error. Reason: File "menu.asp" was not found!)

Others will play it on the safe side, displaying news that mentions error, the wikipedia error entry, then, the algorithm seeing that the remaining thousands of pages are wrong show only a handful of results.

I found one search engine that seemed less prone to this kind of troubles that the major search engine we know.

One the second hand, my search engine seems to be affected a lot later than the other search engines. That's suspicious, considering it's unlikely I'm the only one to run and try to fix that trouble. The real answer is... well, it doesn't show very well the content of the page, and where that "error" comes from.

Is this question relevant in any way ? It's the traditional "the written words don't really mean what the website is about".
Even if we are using the link text from web page to web page, there's going to be guys saying "this pages yields an error" or something like that.
One can say that, well, if enough guys say something different about the page, use what the majority is saying; true, but if you are looking for fast raising page per words...

I don't have an answer to that; it looks like I'm not the only one, and that's not really a comforting idea as to the future of search.