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bug#732: marked as done (w3m shows different results than Firefox browse


From: Emacs bug Tracking System
Subject: bug#732: marked as done (w3m shows different results than Firefox browser)
Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2008 01:00:03 -0700

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and subject line Re: bug#732: w3m shows different results than Firefox browser
has caused the Emacs bug report #732,
regarding w3m shows different results than Firefox browser
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--- Begin Message --- Subject: w3m shows different results than Firefox browser Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2008 13:44:42 -0700

This appears to be a w3m bug or the w3m-mode bug and can be reproduced 100%.

Summary:
The results from using Opera, Safari, Firefox, in google search seems to differ from results shown in w3m, for certain url string.

To test, try this url in Firefox and w3m/emacs:

http://www.google.com/search?q=%22The%20computer%20wizards%20at% 20Industrial%20Light%20and%20Magic%20help%20alchemize%22

standard browsers shows many results, top one is this time mag article:
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,981238-1,00.html

Safari, Firefox, Opera seems show identical results. (some has cookies turned on, some not, so this search shouldn't depends on cookies)

but in w3m it just shows one vocabulary page on my website that quoted this phrase.

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GNU Emacs 22.2.1 (powerpc-apple-darwin8.11.0, Carbon Version 1.6.0) of 2008-04-05 on g5.tokyo.stp.isas.jaxa.jp

The w3m mode i'm using is: emacs-w3m-1.4.4

  Xah
∑ http://xahlee.org/

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In GNU Emacs 22.2.1 (powerpc-apple-darwin8.11.0, Carbon Version 1.6.0)
 of 2008-04-05 on g5.tokyo.stp.isas.jaxa.jp
Windowing system distributor `Apple Inc.', version 10.4.11
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Important settings:
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  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: nil
  locale-coding-system: iso-8859-1
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Emacs-Lisp

Minor modes in effect:
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  desktop-save-mode: t
  delete-selection-mode: t
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  utf-translate-cjk-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t
  abbrev-mode: t




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--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message --- Subject: Re: bug#732: w3m shows different results than Firefox browser Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2008 09:51:30 +0200 User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux)
On 2008-08-16 22:44 +0200, xah lee wrote:

> This appears to be a w3m bug or the w3m-mode bug and can be reproduced
> 100%.
>
> Summary:
> The results from using Opera, Safari, Firefox, in google search seems
> to differ from results shown in w3m, for certain url string.
>
> To test, try this url in Firefox and w3m/emacs:
>
> http://www.google.com/search?q=%22The%20computer%20wizards%20at%
> 20Industrial%20Light%20and%20Magic%20help%20alchemize%22
>
> standard browsers shows many results, top one is this time mag article:
> http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,981238-1,00.html
>
> Safari, Firefox, Opera seems show identical results. (some has cookies
> turned on, some not, so this search shouldn't depends on  cookies)
>
> but in w3m it just shows one vocabulary page on my website that quoted
> this phrase.

This is PEBKAC, just remove the %22 quotation marks.  With them, the
above URL shows only one result in any browser I've tried, including
Firefox and Konqueror; without them, w3m and other browsers show many
results.

Fortunately, Google does not seem to discriminate "non-standard"
browsers yet.

Sven


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