Subject: bug#732 closed by Sven Joachim <[email-masked]> (Re: bug#732: w3m shows different results than Firefox browser)

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>From [email-masked] Sun Aug 17 00:51:43 2008
From: Sven Joachim <[email-masked]>
To: xah lee <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Subject: Re: bug#732: w3m shows different results than Firefox browser
Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2008 09:51:30 +0200

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

>From [email-masked] Sat Aug 16 13:45:13 2008
To: [email-masked]
From: xah lee <[email-masked]>
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 =20
reproduced 100%.

Summary:
The results from using Opera, Safari, Firefox, in google search seems =20=

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=3D%22The%20computer%20wizards%20at%=20
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 =20
cookies turned on, some not, so this search shouldn't depends on =20
cookies)

but in w3m it just shows one vocabulary page on my website that =20
quoted this phrase.

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GNU Emacs 22.2.1 (powerpc-apple-darwin8.11.0, Carbon Version 1.6.0) =20
of 2008-04-05 on g5.tokyo.stp.isas.jaxa.jp

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

   Xah
=E2=88=91 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
configured using `configure  '--prefix=3D/Applications/Emacs.app/=20
Contents/Resources' '--with-carbon' '--without-x' '--libexecdir=3D/=20
Volumes/Emacs/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/libexec' 'CFLAGS=3D-Os -arch =20
i386 -arch ppc -isysroot /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk -DUSE_ATSUI -=20=

DUSE_MAC_TSM''

Important settings:
   value of $LC_ALL: nil
   value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
   value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
   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:
   encoded-kbd-mode: t
   shell-dirtrack-mode: t
   desktop-save-mode: t
   delete-selection-mode: t
   recentf-mode: t
   show-paren-mode: t
   tooltip-mode: t
   mouse-wheel-mode: t
   menu-bar-mode: t
   file-name-shadow-mode: t
   global-font-lock-mode: t
   font-lock-mode: t
   blink-cursor-mode: t
   unify-8859-on-encoding-mode: t
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   line-number-mode: t
   transient-mark-mode: t
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