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Comment author: gwern 04 September 2011 08:05:32PM 0 points [-]

The Google query including "personal" returns close to 30 spurious results: for instance those containing "personal computer" or "personal transportation".

JoshuaZ has (example) been adding brackets to the tags, such as [economics]. You don't mention forcing Google to include the brackets, so it's not surprising it includes those extra results.

Comment author: Douglas_Knight 04 September 2011 11:21:48PM 2 points [-]

I don't think google respects punctuation. It's a common complaint.

Comment author: gwern 04 September 2011 11:39:36PM 1 point [-]

Hm, you're right. I did some searches on this, and apparently brackets are one of the special characters specifically excluded by Google (along with spam-licious '@' and others). How unfortunate.