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To chav and have not

Tim Robson, at UTT, can shed some light on why putting ‘chav’ into the Argos search engine brings up some very bling chains. He forwards us a letter from b3ta, the bulletin board where this surfaced.
‘I work for the Argos Internet Customer Service team. Yup, you should feel sorry for me,’ it says. ‘The reason "chav" comes up with the chains is because the search engine only uses the first three letters of a word to search with.’
Try it, it’s true.

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