deliberate mistakes

[deird1]

Dear Google,

Thank you for being so helpful.


I searched for "teh menz", and you knew that I meant "the" instead of "teh"! (You weren't quite sure what to do with "menz".)

I searched for "anthropomorfic", and you promptly changed it to "anthropomorphic", because that's clearly what I really meant!

I searched for "happyness", and you wondered why, since I'm such a picky speller, I kept on getting things mis-spelled, but you didn't complain about the extra work I gave you - you kept on enthusiastically helping me out, and searched for "happiness" instead!

I searched for "feministe", and you gave me several thousand results for what I really wanted to search for: "feminist"!


Oh Google, dearest Google, you are so very helpful. Now cut it out.



(Does anyone else wish there was an "I am a pedantic speller" box you could tick so it would search for exactly what you want, straight out?)

Comments

[velvetwhip]

Grr. Arrgh.


Gabrielle

[snickfic]

Generally I've found that if I put quotes around the thing I'm searching for (yes, even if it's just one word), Google will search on the exact phrase.

[stormwreath]

There is, but unfortunately it's two clicks not one, and you can't set it to 'on' by default.

("More Search Tools" | "Verbatim", for the record)

[redsixwing]

That's going to be very helpful, thanks. :D

[kerkevik]

Just what did google think you 'might' be licking for by typing in "teh menz"?

There may, or may not be a bad pun in there somewhere :-)

lol Ray.

[lydiabell]

If you put a + in front of your search term, it will search for it literally. So, +"teh menz" or whatever.

[zeborah]

I've solved this problem by changing my preferred search engine to https://duckduckgo.com/ which will ask if you mean feminist but will in the meantime display the results you requested. You can also fiddle with various options in the settings.

[immer_am_lesen]

...what were you hoping to find, with poorly-spelled words?
o_O

[deird1]

Well, "teh menz" is a meme. "Feministe" is a website. "Anthropomorfic" is a genre of fanfic. And "happyness" is part of a movie title that I couldn't remember the full name of.

There is method to my madness...

[immer_am_lesen]

I seeee.....
Don't know that meme; don't know that website; that spelling just arghs my eyes (what kind of fanfic is it...about anthropomorphism, perchance?); and happyness, isn't that a Will Smith movie? The Pursuit of Happyness? :-)
Watched it, still no idea why it was spelt that way...