"Formatted for mobile viewing by Google"

When you use Google's mobile search engine with the built-in Nokia browser and choose one of the resulting links, does the site ever appear "formatted" by Google? This has happened now for several weeks and is driving me crazy! Why? Because their "formatted" page looks awful, and because I resent their paternal attempts to protect me from the web! I see "page 1" and "zoom" links at the top, and the text "Formatted for mobile viewing by Google" and a "View page directly" link at the bottom. So to to view the site as I expect, I must now load every page twice!
My phone is an E73 and I'm in the USA, but I expect this new "feature" affects a wide range of Nokia phones. Except that I appear to be the first person here complaining. Perhaps this "feature" isn't yet available worldwide?
Sooo, does this problem affect anybody else?? Thanks!
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A happy update. I tried contacting several tech news web sites, to see if their journalists would take up my cause and use their contacts at Google to learn what is going on. (Mere users certainly can't reach Google anymore!) I met a nice fellow from CNet, but even he didn't seem to take my situation very seriously.
So I changed tactics and started taunting Google. At the bottom of every reformatted page is a "Report a problem" link, which leads to a list of common problems and solutions. The last problem is "Other", which leads to a web form. 2 or 3 times a day, I was submitting things like
"I am a user and would like to PERMANENTLY disable reformatted web pages for my Nokia E73 phone, without using logins or cookies. This is a 2-year-old phone and I have gotten by very well so far without your meddling."
"I am a user and take great exception to your attempt to reformat web sites. I get the impression your programmers have run out of things to do and are now making changes for the sake of change, and not based on user feedback. I do not need protection from the big, bad www! Nokia E73 user."
and lastly
"The new, improved Google mobile search proved as welcome as Lupus. A Nokia E73 user."
(If anybody relied on DejaNews in the late 1990's, their usenet search database was a godsend at first, but the web interface was gradually retooled to the point of being unusable. And then an upstart company named Google rescued us by buying the database and again giving it a usable front end. IMHO, Google's search interfaces are now reaching DejaNews complexity and are in need of being rescued themselves. An article on suck.com about the fall of DejaNews inspired the above comment.)
Fast forward about a week and now no search results are reformatted. Even the Preferences link on the main search page doesn't include the option "Format web pages for your phone". Yes, it's possible Google still wasn't listening, and this was just the result of them further refining their filters. Or maybe they turned the whole thing off for now? But for anybody with this problem also needing a resolution, I still highly recommend clicking "Report a problem" and "Other" and telling them what you really think!

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