Google Docs crashed because of the input "And. And. And. And. And."

Google Docs, the search giant's web-based word processing app, has been resuscitated after it was found choking on a series of conjunctions and other parts of speech.

Web developer Pat Needham noticed that typing, "And. And. And. And. And." into Google Docs, capitalized thus but without the quotation marks, caused the application to crash. This would occur after entering the text and refreshing the page.

"It's case-sensitive," wrote Needham in a post to Google Support. "So trying with 'and. and. And. and. And.' doesn't cause it to crash."

Needham said he tried to reproduce the crash in three different Google Accounts and got the same results.

Google staff acknowledged the issue in less than 45 minutes and said a fix was being rolled out.


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