Google Fixed my Booboo

[Jill]

I could be wrong and this is not new but it's the first time for me... I misspelled something and it auto redirected me to the correct spelling search results. Wow! It used to just bring up the "did you mean this... " but now it does that AND auto redirects. Is this new or am I just a REALLY good speller and didn't notice it before? ;)

[nancyb]

It has been doing that for awhile, Jill. But maybe your speller has gotten better, too :)

[AAnnAArchy]

I prefer the results showing up for the misspellings. It helps a creative webmaster. :)

AAnn

[martinibuster]

I prefer the old way too. Suppose you have a humor website named Britney Speared, and the domain name is something other than what you think it would be?

And suppose this humor site had nothing to do with this celebrity, (just as Wired has nothing to do with caffeine, drugs, or copper cables), nobody would ever find your humor site by doing a search for "britney speared" because google would autospell it for you and take you to the wrong results.

Just playing the devils advocate.

:) Y

[jatar_k]

In my experience it only pushes you to the new spelling when there are no results for the other spelling.

[Slade]

That's the only time i've seen it too. Almost every time i've flubbed spelling of a term, it's just given me the "Did you mean:" link.