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Re:'Google says I'm a dead physicist': is the biggest search... by iainmerrick on Saturday July 20, 2024 @07:13PM (#41020915)
If it were a simple name collision in the way the original commenter seemed to mean, you’d search for your name, and see the photo and biography of a different person.

The article writer searched for his name, and found his photo attached to somebody else’s biography. That’s an incorrect search result.

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Re:'Google says I'm a dead physicist': is the biggest search... by deaddodo on Saturday July 20, 2024 @07:52PM (#41021212)
No, he found another person's biography near his profile photo for his X blurb. They were in distinctly different content bubbles, even if it visually looked similar.
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Re:'Google says I'm a dead physicist': is the biggest search... by advael on Saturday July 20, 2024 @08:01PM (#41021275)
This reading isn't supported by the text
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Re:'Google says I'm a dead physicist': is the biggest search... by kevin_thibedeau on Saturday July 20, 2024 @08:14PM (#41021348)
Too bad Tom Faber is dead so we'll never know the truth.
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Re:'Google says I'm a dead physicist': is the biggest search... by brookst on Saturday July 20, 2024 @08:24PM (#41021407)
One day we’ll understand the mystery surrounding the death of all Tom Fabers at once.
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