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What I wanted was web pages that talk about these things, not web pages that include these words outside of the body (e.g., stuff like META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset)
Why can't google's results include only what's viewable to page visitors instead of what's viewable to a bot (e.g., don't include content that's in the head, not in the body, or otherwise not viewable "on the page")?
Maybe it's just me.
The problem is that the <Body> tag doesn't really mean anything, and stuff outside that block element can be seen. So then they would be using a stricter interpretation of the HTML spec than any of the browsers.
If I mimick your search, I get pages with these words in the BODY. Google is rather famous for ignoring meta stuff.
To take your exact example...
[google.com...]
...does return pages that talk about those items; not pages that contain that text outside of the "viewable" area....