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Google and Gmail bug

Everybody loves Google. Everybody loves Gmail.

There is an annoying bug in Gmail though (and Google as well). It doesn't recognize dots. For example, my Gmail address is www.D10.is@gmail.com. But if you send an email to wwwD10is@gmail.com I still get the mail. In this case it doesn't matter, but what if my address was something like john.j. I would then get the mail sent to johnj wich someone else might own.

The same bug is in fact active in Google search engine. It doesn't recognize dots at all. For some reason Google is convinced "." equals " " (empty space)

So, if you search for www.D10.is you get a reference to the website at top, as you should, but if you search for D10.is you get nonsense as it is mistranslated to D10 is (something something). This is true even when entering the string "D10.is".

I know for a fact Google knows about this and has for years, as I've talked to some of their staff about it. They refuse to fix it, as they seem to believe this is a feature rather than a bug. This can't be true regarding Gmail though.

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