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Tuesday, September 27, 2005
18 years ago

Suppose I want to search for the brand "tub-e" in Google. If I enter this search term without the quotes I get results for the London underground, as Google assumes the phrase is misspelled and hence gives me "tube"-hits. On the other hand if I enter the same term with the quotation marks I get hits I want for the copper brand at Outokumpu.

Is there a workaround for this or do I have to settle for this unfortunate circumstance? i.e. is there a way I can code the term "tub-e" (and similar terms) on web pages so that when searching in Google for "tub-e" (without quotation marks) I will get hits based on the term I enter, not based on Google's assumption that it is misspelled. Thanx.

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