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"nemesis" <nam### [at] gmail com> wrote:
> "gregjohn" <pte### [at] yahoo com> wrote:
> > Topic change:
> >
> > I was trying to search for a public religious figure, Paull E. Spring [sic]. I
> > typed into the search bar, "Rev. Paull E. Spring." Google's answer is:
> >
> > >> Showing results for Rev. Paul E. Spring.
> > >> Search instead for Rev. Paull E. Spring
> >
> > Then when I click on the thing I actually asked for, I get my literal text
> > showing up in the first two entries.
>
> I get lots of links for both, none from you.
>
> Perhaps you have a bad char encoding that is messing up searches?
WHOA.
I *have* always detested all the extra characters that firefox (or google)
inserts into the URL. Perhaps somewhere I have in my account an "idiot = ON"
setting.
But my Firefox search doesn't show the guy:
http://bit.ly/cMHkMN
But I get the same thing in Safari:
http://bit.ly/bn87ml
AND my problem with that Asian prof was off an Android phone.
So you get a reasonable response to that "Paull" query? Any tips on how to fix
Google?
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