New Google engine bypasses deg00gling de\/ic3s

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"Google has announced the beta release of their new search engine, designed to circumvent the substition of digits and other characters for letters in e.g. personal names. This practice is common on the Internet, where it has been used as a practical way of mentioning names – especially those of other people – in a legible, but still unsearchable, way."

Omg. Moderator overtime ahoy? More here.

― OleM (OleM), Friday, 1 April 2005 13:06 (twenty years ago)

Oh for gods sake, WHY?!?!?

What is the point of rendering searchable something that someone distinctly does not want searched?

― Masonic Cathedral (kate), Friday, 1 April 2005 13:10 (twenty years ago)

Click the link, Kate...

― emil.y (emil.y), Friday, 1 April 2005 13:11 (twenty years ago)

haha, str4thclyd3 univer5ity.

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 1 April 2005 13:12 (twenty years ago)

Oi! No April Fooling after noon.

― Masonic Cathedral (kate), Friday, 1 April 2005 13:13 (twenty years ago)

dat sure is funneh. i gop 0wn3d

― g-kit (g-kit), Friday, 1 April 2005 13:13 (twenty years ago)

No April Fooling after noon

True, OleM is so the April"'s" Fool.

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Friday, 1 April 2005 14:34 (twenty years ago)

Your search - J0rd@n C0h3n - did not match any documents.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 1 April 2005 14:52 (twenty years ago)

Oi! No April Fooling after noon.

Rilly? Hmfph. You and your outlandish southener ways.

― OleM (OleM), Friday, 1 April 2005 21:09 (twenty years ago)

sadly, this sounds like something they'd do (and is fairly easily done, I assume, by making a-@ wild cards)

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Friday, 1 April 2005 21:33 (twenty years ago)

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