If you search for "a" the you will get a HASH(0x82320b0) OR HASH(0x825c56c). Can this problem be overcome. This happens with any search term that altavista hasn't got results for.
Searching for nothing works fine. All one letter searches fail. Well for most anyway. I want to be able to have an error saying no results found. Note this error happens when searching BOTH and the WEB.