Google behaving badly

[AlbertLionheart]

Anyone else having trouble with Google? It is seriously slow and links that it has found often fail to work at all. Bing is just fine!

 

[raybay]

No problems in Arizona, as I have been using it steadily since 1:56 a.m. and it is now nearly 8 a.m.

 

[flynne]

Having no probs with Google atm in UK
but whats the difference between Google and Bing?

 

[AlbertLionheart]

It isn't PC specific and a friend in a local town is having the same problem.
Bing is the new M-soft search engine and is (ssshh Microsoft might be listening) much the same as Google.

 

[raybay]

Google is the leader, and Bing is Microsoft's attempt to play catch up.
But I suspect for the purposed AlbertLionHeart's post, they are just being driven from diofferent systems.
It seems likely that the problem is from the local connection company or server.

 

[AlbertLionheart]

I think you are right raybay - and I'll use Bing until I change back again!

 

[flynne]

Thanks for the info. I usually use Ggle, and Bing seems to come up randomly - prbly from IE - but I guess its what you get used to.
I'll give it a go in future...

 

[DelJo63]

frequently a DNS can be manipulated with all kinds of fall-out

see this post re OpenDNS

I've set that into my router so all my LAN systems use it in place of the ISP dns

 

[AlbertLionheart]

Thanks jobeard - that's not the problem as the issue with Google affects everything. Even looking up my own site or any of the ones I manage will find the reference in Google but the link in the listing refuses to work.
If I do the same thing with Bing it works perfectly.

 

[DelJo63]

ok, I understand what you have said -- however
every URL (original click or search or some link in a search result) must be
resolved into an IP address. This is done by a DNS request -- very time unless it
is in your DNS Cach. try this

from an admin account get a command prompt (run->cmd) and enter these commands
ipconfig /flushdns
net stop "dns client"
net start "dns client"
​

now rerun your google test

 

[AlbertLionheart]

thanks jobeard - when I tried this I found out that the DNS client service had been disabled so I reset it to automatic and rebooted - google now behaving normally.
Still doesn't explain why Bing works OK and why a contact in a nearby town was having exactly the same problem! Thanks again