phranque
msg:3836875 | 10:18 pm on Jan 28, 2009 (gmt 0) |
similarly, today i was doing a series of searches and on one there was the "did you mean" link followed by the "no results" message and the following one has a "no results" message followed by some sort of "here are the results for what you must have meant".
i had never seen that before.
if i can find the exact terms again i'll try to describe it better.
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tedster
msg:3836881 | 10:23 pm on Jan 28, 2009 (gmt 0) |
I noticed something strange yesterday that may related. I correctly spelled "keyword" and the #2 result had the typo "keywor" highlghted in bold - missing the final letter. In fact, when you truncate that word, you do not have an English word at all.
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phranque
msg:3836993 | 1:38 am on Jan 29, 2009 (gmt 0) |
i found an example of what i saw earlier: | No results found for "big red widget". Results for big red widget (without quotes):
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TechnoDiary
msg:3837150 | 7:51 am on Jan 29, 2009 (gmt 0) |
Yep, I am seeing this from yesterday. Now it's going to be very tough to get traffic from misspelled words. Good for users.
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steveb
msg:3837155 | 8:22 am on Jan 29, 2009 (gmt 0) |
I've been getting that 2 corrected results nonsense for some time now. It's very frustrating when searching for names. Same with the idiotic "typo" correction. To get accurate results you have to type "word" or +word to force goggle to actually search for what you type.
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suzukik
msg:3837720 | 8:20 pm on Jan 29, 2009 (gmt 0) |
Google Japan officially announced the enhancement on its blog.
[googlejapan.blogspot.com...] P.S.
You may read the post by using Google translate though it is translated somewhat strangely.
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steveb
msg:3837987 | 4:05 am on Jan 30, 2009 (gmt 0) |
It's so hopelessly terrible for users you have to wonder if Google has to do it to cover the algo's incorporation of mispellings. I just searched for a specific person, where there are about 100 results total, but the inital Google page shows over a million. Unsophisticated users would never find what they are looking for.
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