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This is frustrating. I'm sure most of us makes a good search for things like how to spell a word ... or simple stuff.
[edited by: tedster at 5:51 pm (utc) on Feb. 20, 2008]
...and a more recent one from January:
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Google Groups shows hundreds of complaints about this behavior, by the way.