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How Google Alters Search Queries to Get at Your Wallet (www.wired.com)

Google likely alters queries billions of times a day in trillions of different variations. Here’s how it works. Say you search for “children’s clothing.” Google converts it, without your knowledge, to a search for “NIKOLAI-brand kidswear,” making a behind-the-scenes substitution of your actual query with a different...

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>search
>search with search term in quotes
>search with search term in quotes with “Verbatim” mode enabled
>“search” “with” “each” “individual” “word” “of” “search” “term” “in” “quotes”
>double-check that “Verbatim” mode is still enabled (it is)
>click first link out of frustration, do a manual text search of the page for some keywords from your search term
>keywords from search term are not in top search result
>try to find a cached version of the page that that search engine appears to be referencing (waste 20 mins)
>cached version also doesn’t contain any keywords from your search term

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