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Yup, there have been plenty of times I've put quotes around my search terms and Google decided I didn't really mean to put quotes around them.
by shamshiel 13y ago
Yup, there have been plenty of times I've put quotes around my search terms and Google decided I didn't really mean to put quotes around them.
- nimble 13y agoWhat do you think Google should do with the following search: Who said, "To hair is human?"
- mkr-hn 13y agoI would want Google to leave it alone and suggest what it thinks is correct as an option, like it used to.
- chimeracoder 13y agoWow. I was definitely not expecting this: http://i.imgur.com/9Zpqota.png http://i.imgur.com/9Zpqota.png Thanks for pointing that out.
- pbhjpbhj 13y agoThat's a massive fail for Google IMO. Why isn't it matching phrases for the search recommendation? Surely "to err is human" popularised by Pope [a million plus results] should be suggested before "to heir is human" (a minor computer game) [60k results].
- nl 13y agoInteresting! "heir" is a much closer match for "hair" in terms of Levenshtein distance[1] (which indicates a typing error) and soundex[2] (misheard). But clearly "to err is human" should be offered as a possibility too. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levenshtein_distance http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levenshtein_distance [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soundex http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soundex
- eitland 13y agoI summarized the madness a while ago. I think today the situation is somewhat better but here it is: http://techinorg.blogspot.com/2013/03/what-is-going-on-with-search-results.html http://techinorg.blogspot.com/2013/03/what-is-going-on-with-... @nimble: what about when you intentionally search for a misspelling?