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by wyager 1017 days ago
This reminds me of when Google Shopping (remember that?) started returning zero results for any search containing the substring "gun", so "hot glue gun" or "gundam figurine" would return nothing.
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How did Google come up with that kind of solution with their teams of developers that pass those crazy leetcode interviews?

Matching strings like this seems like a solution that an average high-school programmer would find some question marks with.

>gundam

So even Google fails to avoid the Scunthorpe problem.