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NOTE: If you are looking for the Fannie Farmer Cornbread recipe, please visit this link:
prairiebluestem.blogspot.com/2006/10/cornbread-for-supper.html

I had a note at the top of my blog for a week or so, asking visitors who came here from a search engine to use the Blogger search if the page wasn't what the search results showed.

Today I removed the note because the errors don't seem to be occurring now. Here is an example of what was happening:

-- The search query:
Fannie Farmer cornbread recipe

-- The Google search results
Prairie Bluestem: Cornbread for Supper - Nov. 19
In about 1972, I bought a Fannie Farmer Cookbook, and ever since, I've used its recipe for cornbread. Here the Fannie Farmer recipe, doubled as I usually ...
prairiebluestem.blogspot.com/2006/10/riding-horseback-to-school.html - 96k -

Notice that the link was to a page that has nothing to do with cornbread for supper. The blog post that should have come up was prairiebluestem.blogspot.com/2006/10/cornbread-for-supper.html

The above example happened dozens of times over the last few days. Apparently the Thanksgiving holiday made people think about Fannie Farmer's cornbread recipe.

I still don't know if it was a Google error or a Blogger Beta error. I complained and received a form letter from the Blogger Beta help desk saying that even if I didn't hear back from them, they would be working on the bug. Apparently they fixed it. I'm glad.

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