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A comment on Google's PageRank patent has expired (2019). Parent comment

Re:Google's PageRank patent has expired (2019) by charcircuit on Wednesday June 01, 2022 @10:41AM (#31582462)
>They don't guarantee that the term you quoted will be in the results.

They do guarantee it. Sometimes Google is buggy and messes up in determining what's page is actually visible on the page compared to just being somewhere in the HTML.

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Re:Google's PageRank patent has expired (2019) by heretogetout on Wednesday June 01, 2022 @10:59AM (#31582759)
That's a loose definition of guarantee, I think. They know what's on the page because they include a brief summary in the results, but even there quoted terms don't always appear.

Here's an example someone posted a few months back where google decided the user didn't really want what they said they wanted:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30132344

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Re:Google's PageRank patent has expired (2019) by not2b on Wednesday June 01, 2022 @10:54AM (#31582675)
The page Google saw might not be the one you get if you click the link they give you. This kind of thing is in the SEO bag of tricks.
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