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Green Gandalf
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Posted: 15th May 2015 13:31
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I've just done a search for the phrase "3D Canvas Pro" and Google listed the page for 3D Crafter Pro. In the text under the page title the Google listing showed the text:

Quote: "3D Canvas is a real-time 3D modelling and animation tool that incorporates an intuitive drag-and-drop approach to 3D modelling."


When I visit the page (on this site of course) it has the following text:

Quote: "3DCrafter is a real-time 3D modeling and animation tool that incorporates an intuitive drag-and-drop approach to 3D modeling."


Why is Google doing this? I've noticed this sort of thing before, i.e. that Google searches annoyingly often list pages that don't contain the search phrase used but this is the first time I've actually noticed it changing the text. Anyone know what Google thinks it's doing?



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Posted: 15th May 2015 13:32
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I think google tries to find synonmys and alternatives to what you are searching for if it doesn't find the exact thing. I could be wrong though

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Posted: 15th May 2015 13:45
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I'd rather be told it couldn't find the string I searched for. It usually suggest spelling corrections when you make an error but this present "feature" is very irritating. Is there a way of forcing Google to search for the exact string you want?



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Posted: 15th May 2015 13:52
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are you putting your search string in quotes?

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Posted: 15th May 2015 14:02
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Was the name of the product changed? If so it may just be the cache hasn't updated.

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Posted: 15th May 2015 14:12
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It must be something to do with this (taken from Wikipedia):

Quote: "3DCrafter (previously 3D Canvas) is a 3D modelling and animation tool"


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Posted: 15th May 2015 14:30
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Quote: "It must be something to do with this (taken from Wikipedia):"


I'm sure it is - but I was surprised to see Google displaying text that did not actually appear on the page listed. Very confusing.

Quote: "are you putting your search string in quotes?"


No. Certainly putting strings in quotes stops this behaviour but why display text that doesn't appear on the page?



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Posted: 15th May 2015 23:31
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Quote: "I'm sure it is - but I was surprised to see Google displaying text that did not actually appear on the page listed. Very confusing."

Like I said, it is probably just a result of Google caching web pages for it's search results. You searched for a page that still had the old cache lingering. There are plenty of sites that are like this, have you ever clicked on a search result only to be led to a dead page? It's the same issue.

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Posted: 16th May 2015 01:25
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Quote: "Like I said, it is probably just a result of Google caching web pages for it's search results."


Actually, all you said was:

Quote: " If so it may just be the cache hasn't updated."


and I assumed you meant the cache used by my browser on my machine.

But, yes, your new explanation makes sense.



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Posted: 16th May 2015 02:09
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Quote: "and I assumed you meant the cache used by my browser on my machine. "

Ah, now I see where the confusion was.

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lol. I like your signature budokaiman. You wouldn't be the first to quote me :p


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Posted: 16th May 2015 14:03
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Quote: "You wouldn't be the first to quote me :p"

No, but I think I got your best quote.

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