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@kewpie said
That 1 result used
barely English words. The single result is for a translated Japanese programming database.
grunt
soya
bleep

I'm not sure if these get zero hits or 46,000 hits.


expat
grout
minke


@fmf said
grunt
soya
bleep

I'm not sure if these get zero hits or 46,000 hits.
I got 5 results for this. Seems our searches are customised. Who knew?


@shallow-blue said
expat
grout
minke
Zero results confirmed.


@kewpie said
I got 5 results for this. Seems our searches are customised. Who knew?
Given Goo "always do evil" gle... everybody knew.

But yes, I'd noticed that as well.


@shallow-blue said
Given Goo "always do evil" gle... everybody knew.

But yes, I'd noticed that as well.
Back in the dark ages of desktops I used to demonstrate that to the class by giving them different search topics before requesting that a single specific word be searched. The results were eye-opening. I'd forgotten how much we used to worry about personal privacy.

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@kewpie said
Back in the dark ages of desktops I used to demonstrate that to the class by giving them different search topics before requesting that a single specific word be searched. The results were eye-opening. I'd forgotten how much we used to worry about personal privacy.
Some of us still do, and use Google as little as possible.