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Re: google search result differ in Opera and w3m
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Thorsten Bonow |
Subject: |
Re: google search result differ in Opera and w3m |
Date: |
Sun, 17 Aug 2008 23:41:17 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) XEmacs/21.4.21 (linux) |
>>>>> "Xah" == Xah <xahlee@gmail.com> writes:
Xah> Anyone reproduce? I'm suspecting this is w3m bug or the w3m-mode bug?
>>
>> You can reproduce the two different results if you call your browser with
>> or without the quotes `"' surrounding your query expression, which are
>> translated to `%22' at the beginning and end of the string sent to the
>> browser.
>>
>> So I think you call emacs/w3m with and firefox without them.
Xah> This is kinda odd. The double straight quote needs to be part of the
Xah> search.
Xah> In OSX 10.4.11, in Safari, Opera, Firefox (all latest public version),
Xah> they all return mulitple results with the following line on top:
Xah> «Information No results found for "The computer wizards at Industrial
Xah> Light and Magic help alchemize".
Xah> Results for The computer wizards at Industrial Light and Magic help
Xah> alchemize (without quotes):»
Xah> in w3m and icab, they give just 1 result.
Xah> So, perhaps somehow when google search automatically switch to a non-
Xah> exact-phrase search when the exact-phrase search got only one result?
Xah> But this couldn't be because some FF in linux apparantly return just 1
Xah> result from exact phrase search too.
Hi,
I can't reproduce your problem.
If I type your query with quotes (`"The computer wizards at Industrial Light and
Magic help alchemize"'), I get one result (as expected) in epiphany, firefox and
emacs/w3m and w3m. If I type it without quotes (`The computer wizards at
Industrial Light and Magic help alchemize'), I get many results---nothing
unexpected here.
If I paste your URL
(`http://www.google.com/search?q=%22The%20computer%20wizards%20at%20Industrial%20Light%20and%20Magic%20help%20alchemize%22')
in a browser or call the browser with your URL as argument from the command
line, again I get one result---with all my browsers.
If I remove the quotes, translated to `%22', at the beginning and end of the
search phrase
(`http://www.google.com/search?q=The%20computer%20wizards%20at%20Industrial%20Light%20and%20Magic%20help%20alchemize'),
I get many results---again as expected.
I can't reproduce your claim that with the *same* string you can get different
results from google depending on the browser.
Are you calling the browsers from a script and add quoting in one case but not
the other? Am I missing something?
Toto
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