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Do they only have those stats for "britney spears"? (And if so...why?)

I looked (admittedly not very hard) to see if this was some kind of google lab where you query with some phrase and see the misspellings, but to no avail. That would be interesting - anyone know links?

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It's used as an illustrative example on the "Why Work at Google?" page: http://www.google.com/intl/en/jobs/swe/whygoogle/

I thought at first it might be the source data for some kind of programming puzzle, but searching "link:www.google.com/jobs/britney.html site:google.com" did not immediately reveal it. Upon reflection, a puzzle of that sort seems a bit uncharacteristic.

It's worth noting that the Wayback Machine shows the Britney misspelling page existing almost unchanged since March 2002 (http://wayback.archive.org/web/*/http://www.google.com/jobs/...). The back link has varied a bit over the years.

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