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Did I just find a bug on Google Search?.md

Did I just find a bug on Google Search?

I don't know if Google guys would consider this a "bug", but I do think it'd be a good addition. So this is what's going on:

I was doing a quick search today, I searched for "hendrix tuning" (I was having an argument with a friend between E-flat and D open tunings). I did the search and this is what appeared on the google result page: Google results page

As you might have noticed, the little "flat" symbol (u"\u266D" for python guys) is missing in the title of the results (first result).

I checked the wikipedia site and everything looked ok: Wikipedia page

They're using a correct IRI (wiki/E%E2%99%AD_tuning) and the title element and the encoding looks ok:

<meta charset="UTF-8" />
<title>E♭ tuning - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</title>

Please note that bing does this well (first result): Bing search results

So, what do you think guys? Is this a bug? Where would you report it?

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