Fascinating. It seemed to work ok when I put double quotes around punc. I didn’t see anything in the advanced search tips or in my prefs on why it would do that…
Sigh. Tried posting this a minute ago but my browser (Safari) wouldn’t show the image for the captcha, so I couldn’t submit it. I tried again but got a “you already sent this!” message. So let’s try it again:
Fascinating. It seemed to work ok when I put double quotes around punc. I didn’t see anything in the advanced search tips or in my prefs on why it would do that…
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Fascinating. It seemed to work ok when I put double quotes around punc. I didn’t see anything in the advanced search tips or in my prefs on why it would do that…
Sigh. Tried posting this a minute ago but my browser (Safari) wouldn’t show the image for the captcha, so I couldn’t submit it. I tried again but got a “you already sent this!” message. So let’s try it again:
Fascinating. It seemed to work ok when I put double quotes around punc. I didn’t see anything in the advanced search tips or in my prefs on why it would do that…
Great. The first one made it through. Sorry about the dupe. It’s not my day. \u2639
Heya Sean,
I noticed it also works if you do “site:maes-e.com punc -punch”.
Computers, they’ll never catch on. ☺
Double quotes fix most of Googles creative correcting. Q. Pheevr had a post about this last October.