My best guess, since it looks like it runs for a little while before showing the error page. Also, the same query with one less zero works fine. - Sanjeev Singh

I got a 403 Forbidden error page, saying the query looked similar to automated searches performed by computer programs. Really weird. - dgw

"Sorry, but looks like an automated search" here too. I wonder how they decide.. - Jonathan Tang

like how the error comes from sorry.google.com. - Karim

I wonder when google is going to put an updated logo on their error pages. At least I know where to go when I want to feel nostalgia for 1998. - Calvin Lough

I wonder who thought of creating this sub-domain-name.. http://sorry.google.com/.. Wondering if there is http://youarestupid.google.com or http://thankyou.google.com!! - Jigar Mehta

The logo isn't out of date -- it's text. For some reason, it was decided that error pages couldn't have images. - Paul Buchheit

Numrange queries are probably an order of magnitude more expensive than the average query, since they have to either merge all the terms that fall in that range, or use some alternative indexing scheme that eats up memory. - Jim Norris

I think numrange uses some exponential scheme so that it only has to search O(lg n) terms. It's probably only used by people searching for credit card numbers though... - Paul Buchheit

I still want to see results past 1,000. - Louis Gray

Really? I thought it was all done in MySQL... - Jim Norris

I use it to find Fedex tracking numbers. I like to know that everyone got their stuff okay. - DeWitt Clinton

I've seen this error before, I was searching for "Powered by phpbb" (for good reasons though ;) ) - Hassan Ibraheem