First place I noticed it was on techdirt.com.  There are a lot of
missing blocks of text there.  Here is a cut and paste of the screen
shot:

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in that post asked the following question:

    If an independent merchant stakes his reputation to his ability to
find rare and compelling pieces of design around the world, and he
invests significant time and money to do, is it fair for a larger
company to cherry-pick the best discoveries, manufacture lookalike
reproductions and undercut the little guy on price?

It seems like a loaded question, especially when you consider the implication 
of considering the
----------

As you can see, the 'question' paragraph is missing.

This also happened on a Google search.  I mistyped a word, and that word
was missing from the 'Showing results for' line.


Showing results for deviled roasted chicken. Search instead for deviled roasted 
chickien


The word chicken and the misspelling of it is were missing on the page, but cut 
and paste captured them.

The missing word thing happens quite often on a lot of sites including
slashdot, reddit and techdirt, among others, although I don't recall
missing whole blocks other than on techdirt.

I just tried another Google search, deliberately misspelling a word and
they (corrected and mispelled) are both missing again.  Cut and paste
below shows 'word' and 'wrod', where on Google, they were not displayed.

Showing results for what word is this. Search instead for what wrod is
this


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  Missing words (single and blocks) in firefox

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