zgb999 - 2:39 pm on Dec 27, 2003 (gmt 0)

I am seeing advantages in stemming and synonyms BUT I doubt Google will be able so deal with all the problem of an individual searcher in parts of the world with different spellings than in other parts of the world. There are just too many regions / slangs or however you might call it to deal with.

There are so many words with different spellings in different parts of the world. If I am looking for a word using how it is used in my region of the world I preferr getting sites using the word exactly as I entered it in Google (as it used to be the case).

Bringing this technology to other languages than English will bring even much more pain than it is right now in some cases!

The advantage of Google is its ease of use. I don't think it is possible to train enough people to use + for their searches in order to find what they are looking for.