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Remove "Did you mean" link from Google Search Results?

         

niru786

6:36 pm on Feb 19, 2011 (gmt 0)



Hello Webmasters,

I want to know how i remove Google suggestion : did you mean

I provide you an example relted to this question :

When i seach : relwax in google engine

then google provide Did you mean relex.

I want to remove this suggestion and only show relwax results.

Please help me for my website

[edited by: tedster at 3:47 pm (utc) on Feb 20, 2011]

tedster

10:52 pm on Feb 19, 2011 (gmt 0)

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There's nothing you can do about it. That is because "relwax" is a common typo for "relax".

You are lucky that there's only a suggestion but the search results still show for the original search term. Sometimes Google shows results for what they think was typed, and they add a link to change back to the original search term.

[edited by: tedster at 12:28 am (utc) on Feb 20, 2011]

g1smd

11:52 pm on Feb 19, 2011 (gmt 0)

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That latter action drives me to almost want to punch the computer. I know what I wanted and it drives me nuts that the search results are returned for something other than what I actually typed. Adding "quotes" often fixes it, but that should not be needed.

[edited by: g1smd at 12:09 am (utc) on Feb 20, 2011]

netmeg

12:04 am on Feb 20, 2011 (gmt 0)

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You're telling me? I've been using my nickname since before there was a Google, and they still think I'm a typo.

g1smd

12:11 am on Feb 20, 2011 (gmt 0)

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Ha, even Matt Cutts called you Nutmeg multiple times even after several people had already posted the correction.

They've now hard-wired the SERP just to annoy you. :-)

tedster

12:35 am on Feb 20, 2011 (gmt 0)

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@netmeg, at least you've got one of the Type 1 Suggestions and not a Type 2

tangor

3:56 am on Feb 20, 2011 (gmt 0)

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Computers are stupid (Watson might be a bit different, but is not in general use) and we're stuck with that. :)

Love those "did you mean?" in Google or, if you Bing, "We're including results for"...

There's no magic bullet to prevent... the algos are what they are...

AND, niru786, welcome to Webmasterworld!

leadegroot

9:49 am on Feb 20, 2011 (gmt 0)

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niru786 the only way I know of to get rid of 'did you mean' is to do a massive publicity campaign for the 'new word in English' so that Google can learn about it

(and obviously you have to do a bigger campaign than Netmeg carried out - :runs away: ;))