iPad - Google produces 404 error only.

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After nine months of ownership, Google on my iPad has suddenly gone belly up. It displays search results as normal but subsequent clicking on any of these just gives a 404 error. Keying in the actual URL of found sites works fine so what's going on with Google?
 
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Do other search engines work (yahoo, bing, etc) behave the same way? Are you using google with the safari browser? Have you tried google in other browsers (skyfire, opera, chrome, etc)?
 
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Yahoo OK. Haven't tried any other browser on the iPad. Will try Chrome.
 
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After using Yahoo for 2 days went back to Safari which now works just fine. Strange!
 
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Just curious - Did you reboot during those 2 days or just started working?
 
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bobtomay said:
Just curious - Did you reboot during those 2 days or just started working?
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Rebooted when error first appeared and the error continued afterwards. No further reboots before it sorted itself out.
 
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I am experiencing the same problem. Recently experienced the google 404 message on trying to open web pages from a google search. Left iPad unused for a few days, then on starting up again google was working fine for a few hours, then suddenly again started getting the error messages again. Tried alternative to Safari and google works ok. what is going on? Is there a way of reloading Safari?
 

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