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Just a thought here - however now I don't know exactly how IP adresses are distributed to cell phones with WAP... And bear with me should I seem incoherent - been up 39 hrs and counting...

Could it all be a case of the middleman getting the wrong message? Say you send a search to google ("mophun games") but a millisecond later some other dude/dudette submits some other query. The WAP gateway, a bit delirious, gives you the same IP for the session (or whatever however) as that other user. Thus (Alas?) the search results have a great chance of being mixed up (50/50?) and you get "No results found containing 'Hot Ch1x'" (which was what the other person searched for).

Just a thought. Please correct where wrong. And yes, I'm going to read up on the technical specs for GSM, WAP etc. But not now, I'm going to bed.

PS: what the original post describes has never happened to me, google returns all my searches just fine. It's not been hijacked either

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Posted: 2004-08-03 06:16:19
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@Kurisuteru

The faulty google results also applies to web browsers and computers with static IP. Try yourself with Opera which handles WAP and web pages.
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Posted: 2004-08-03 17:10:18
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thing is, its consistently the wrong thing im searching for!

So say i search "dashboard confessional midi" and it says "No results were found for 'hot wap girls' "

If I change it to say, "Dashboard Confessional midi" (note the change in capitalization), then it works! However, if I keep it as "dashboard confessional midi" it keeps turning up "hot wap girls" !

And i mean like a day or a week later it gives the same search results!


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Posted: 2004-08-03 23:20:00
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Google was hit by the Mydoom worm sometime over the past day or two, perhaps this is related.
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Posted: 2004-08-04 15:47:07
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@laffen:

the IP for the DSL connection I'm on right now is static (well, DHCP really but lease is long - 6 months on same address now), no problems with Google. Haven't tried with Opera though, I'm too happy with Firefox to install that ad-ridden (although very fine) browser.

This sure is a weird problem, and consistent one at that. tried asking google themselves about this?
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Posted: 2004-08-06 07:45:34
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Another problem i have faced with google is that whenever i go to wap.google.com with my T230, instead of the main page in english, what i see is a page in another language. But its not that big a problem since i can type in english and search. Even if the site is in another language, The results i get are in english. Has this anything to do with IP addresses? This message was posted from a T230
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Posted: 2004-08-06 08:10:33
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Does anyone know an email or phone for google wap? I'd be more than happy to contact them about this and post any replies. This message was posted from a T610
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Posted: 2004-08-09 04:27:53
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