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Also happens if you replace "iOS" with "Windows".


It takes a while to load, but it doesn't give me a server error like "ios" does.


Taking a while to load is probably indicative of the problem.... There's probably some O(n^3) memory or compute complexity going on somewhere of the number of emojis on the page.

For example, I imagine Google uses as a final ranking step some stuff based on the similarity of the pages about to be returned - to make sure you aren't about to show the user two pages that are practically identical. That logic might try to build similarity mappings between the pages, and has logic that fails badly for large numbers of emoji.


I would guess it's the time that is the problem - whatever service would produce an inline answer is presumably falling over, and the subsequent timeout is reported as an error.




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