[geeks] Google Irritation

Anthony Ortenzi geeks at litfire.com
Wed Feb 25 12:10:50 CST 2009


Mark Benson said:
> AFAIK it only does a search for something it thinks is more correct if
> it doesn't find any results for what you typed in, otherwise it subtly
> suggests in big bold blue letters you typed it wrong, but finds what
> you typed in... Or at least that's how I took it to work.
> 
> I have noticed for somethings I've typo'd that it includes results for
> the typo and the correct spelling though.

Sridhar was talking about how the results which are returned are being
matched in a fuzzy sense even when quotes are used, and not the "did you
mean?" feature, nor an autocorrect.

-Anthony



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