>"QuienEs" <QuienEsREMOVET...@ANDTHISatt.net> wrote in message
>news:1olh52pf0ndjd729coe94c353c32s205lt@4ax.com...
>> Comments on this would be most welcome.

>> My wife's friends told her it would be fun to google her name, last
>> name is unusual enough that Google should only return a few results.

>> So she googled the web for her name as a phrase
>> [ " characters included ]

>> "firstname lastname"

>> and got 295 hits.

>> Problem is that only the top hit is valid, the rest of the results
>> have our last name in them, but NOT adjacent to her first name.
>> Looking at the cached versions is no help.

>> Anyone know what's up with this or a workaround to only get results
>> with the requested phrase ?   I have used Google for years and think I
>> know what I am doing, maybe I am falling victim to a new "feature" ?

>> SafeSearch Filtering in my preferences is set to:  Use moderate
>> filtering (Filter explicit images only - default behavior)

>> but this shouldn't matter anyway.

>> TIA,  QE in NJ

>Don't know how long it has been happening, but I noticed
>it over the weekend.
>It seems to be about a 50 50 split across the data centers
>try searching here using  "target phrase"
>http://www.mcdar.net/dance/index.php
>and you will see completely different results.