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The evening of the day I posted my big [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_wikis History of wikis] article on Wikipedia, I wanted to see if it was on Google already. I knew from experience that it would take a few days before the new article was crawled, but I wanted to try anyway.
 
The evening of the day I posted my big [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_wikis History of wikis] article on Wikipedia, I wanted to see if it was on Google already. I knew from experience that it would take a few days before the new article was crawled, but I wanted to try anyway.
  
I looked for a search chain that would '''only''' be in my article, and no other. I found the chain "WikiWikiWeb snowballed," which worked. The Google result was:
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I looked for a search chain that would be only in ''my article'', and no other. I found the chain "WikiWikiWeb snowballed," which worked. The Google result was:
  
 
::Your search - "WikiWikiWeb snowballed" - did not match any documents.  
 
::Your search - "WikiWikiWeb snowballed" - did not match any documents.  
  
Writing this up in RainDog's blog, I wanted to capture the sentence "Your search ... did not match any documents" in English, whereas my Google speaks French. So I went to the [http://www.google.fr/preferences?hl=en Google settings page] to change the language, and discovered that the list of available languages includes "Elmer Fudd." I set it to that, and got things like:
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Writing this up in [[User:RainDog/Blog2007-10|RainDog's blog]], I wanted to capture the exact wording of the sentence "Your search ... did not match any documents" in English. Since my Google speaks French, I went to the [http://www.google.fr/preferences?hl=en Google settings page] to change the language. By chance I noticed that the list of available languages includes "Elmer Fudd." I set the language to that, and got things like:
  
 
::Tip: Twy wemoving quotes fwom youw seawch to get mowe wesults.
 
::Tip: Twy wemoving quotes fwom youw seawch to get mowe wesults.
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They're a load of laughs, they are, those Google guys.
 
They're a load of laughs, they are, those Google guys.
  
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==See also==
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*[[GoogleMafia]]
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*[[RainDog's Second Rant]]
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