XPost: alt.society.liberalism, alt.atheism, talk.politics.guns   
   From: lunch@nofreelunch.us   
      
   On Fri, 24 May 2013 13:57:21 -0700, Jason@nospam.com (Jason) wrote in   
   alt.atheism:   
      
   >In article , Free Lunch   
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >> On Fri, 24 May 2013 13:35:57 -0700, Jason@nospam.com (Jason) wrote in   
   >> alt.atheism:   
   >>   
   >> >In article <2OPnt.707$Y_6.68@newsfe01.iad>, Tom McDonald   
   >> > wrote:   
   >> >   
   >> >> On 5/24/2013 1:52 PM, Jason wrote:   
   >> >>   
   >> >>    
   >> >>   
   >> >> > I just googled "Cindy Thomas IRS supervisor should be fired" and got   
   >> >> > millions of hits. Yes, I did use quote marks.   
   >> >>   
   >> >> "No results found for "Cindy Thomas IRS supervisor should be fired"."   
   >> >>   
   >> >> "Results for Cindy Thomas IRS supervisor should be fired (without   
   quotes):"   
   >> >>   
   >> >> Without the quotes, you get millions of hits--about 13.7 million hits.   
   >> >>   
   >> >> With the quotes, you get nothing.   
   >> >>   
   >> >> Learn how to do a google search, and how to report the results.   
   >> >>   
   >> >> Then learn what google 'hits' mean. Hint: almost nothing.   
   >> >>   
   >> >>    
   >> >   
   >> >I believe you. Google seems to work in a different way on my mac computer.   
   >> >Google in some cases automatically removes the quote marks if no results   
   >> >are found.   
   >> >   
   >> And it tells you that it did it. No, it does not behave differently on a   
   >> Mac. Stop making excuses.   
   >   
   >Yes, it does but I don't always read those messages. I retried one such   
   >search and did see the message that the quote marks had been removed. I   
   >did not see those words during my first google search on that subject.   
   >   
   So, once again, it is someone else's fault that you are lazy and don't   
   pay attention to anything.   
      
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