more Tbbtyr oddness

Aug 20, 2008 5 Replies

"Tbbtyr" being the rot13 of "Google"



Submitted a search with the terms "muslin retail yard"



That's musliN with an "N" at the end. Tried it more than once, and get varying proportions of sites on another topic entirely, with the letter just before the "N" in the alphabet instead.


Try and look up Calico or cambric , they are someyime sold under the name of MusliN .. Or try `muslin CLOTH` mirjam

A combination of effects: 1) not every Google search uses the same server farm, and each server farm has a slightly different list of sites; and 2)the search algorithm has been getting more flexible, and is therefore less picky about spelling, and will often give results that don't exactly match the query.

-- Jenn Ridley : snipped-for-privacy@chartermi.net

When I look up fabric I usually say sewing fabric muslin yard or yardgoods HTH Juno

99% percent of the time I don't *want* any algorithm other than an exact match, e.g. "pandamonium" (not "pandemonium") etc. etc.

Try and google any subject you are well aquainted with , they will surpriose you with some odd things !!!! mirjam

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