Results are returned even when no results are found

[larsdean]

When making searches with no results google's suggested results are returned - should return zero results?

[gsouf]

Please, to make sure I fully understand your issue, can you give me further details like the url you want to parse the results for ?

[larsdean]

Sorry for not being clear in my issue :-)

The issue is when Google is "helping" or "correcting" the searches. If i search for a string in quotes like ""this returns nothinggg" no results are found, but Google then "helps" and removes the quotes and gives me the result for this instead. In this case the result given by the script should be empty.

The same is the case when Google is auto correcting strings that Google think contains typos.

Is there a way to filter this? Or at least get the total number of results for the search?

[gsouf]

I understand your issue. The param nfpr=1 is what you are looking for. You cann add it this way:

$googleUrl->setParam('nfr', '1');

This param will force google to use your exact search term and ignoring auto correction.

[larsdean]

Hi Soufiane

thank you for your prompt response - that solves some of the issues - good
tip!

The only thing I miss now is a way filtering out the cases where Google
does not find my exact search term with quotes around - then Google removes
the quotes and show the result without the quoted.

Result:

No results found for "this term is not not found found".
Results for this term is not not found found (without quotes) :…

Med venlig hilsen / Best Regards
Lars Dahl

2016-02-09 13:34 GMT+01:00 Soufiane Ghzal notifications@github.com:

I understand your issue. The param nfpr=1 is what you are looking for.
You cann add it this way:

$googleUrl->setParam('nfr', '1');

This param will force google to use your exact search term and ignoring
auto correction.

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[gsouf]

@larsdean Well, I could reproduce this issue, unfortunately I dont have a solution at this moment, digging into google to find how to get rid of that