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On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 7:26 AM, Carcharoth wrote:
What were *you* searching for that meant you failed to find it?
To be fair, using the word "comparing" instead of "comparison" in the search terms, means you fail to find it using Wikipedia's internal search function (though the Signpost article still pops up), but Google, it seems, can be clever and "comparing" still works.
Carcharoth
The same search terms; when I searched, all the hits were for news articles about when de was blocked by German courts (I didn't bother to click through to see which incident exactly). I notice that even so general a search term as 'english german wikipedia' now brings up the occasional blog post comparing the two Wikipedias (though not Elian's).
Given my past experience with Google's updating (eg http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/92xdg/is_it_not_only_pointless_but... ), this would seem to be another example of searches rebalancing Google's results. In the future, when I make claims about things that can't be found in Google, perhaps I'd better start taking screenshots so people don't think I'm making things up!
- -- gwern