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Surfing Suggestions for Winter?

For your amusement! (At least, I was amused.) In creating a shortened URL for use with a job posting, I wanted to do a quick Google search to see if my created word has been used by others. So what happened when I tried?

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Apparently, Google thought that in the middle of February in Montana, I really wanted to search for 'surfing.' So confident were Google's algorithms that I really had meant to 'surfing' that they decided to give me those results. After all, 4 of the 9 letters matched on surfing. At least, clicking the 'search instead' choice let me find what I wanted to know -- that no one else in Google's current web database was using msurefjob.

Dated Feb 11, 2011 in Google


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