spelling-corrected SERPs different than regular SERPs

[dwilson]

My site is optimized for, let's say, widget history. I found that someone had reached my site from a Google search for widget histery -- misspelled.

So I tried a search. The misspelled SERPs had my site listed as #5, though I'm not yet on the first page for the correctly spelled results. And that misspelling is nowhere on my site.

I'm not complaining. It's just odd!

[seomike2003]

That's just Google stemming. if you do a search for australia you'll get results for australian too. etc. etc. So if you mispell you'll get a whole different query

[soapystar]

i used to do well with a mispelling i targetted..now the real site is number one..it seems that google knows that by association the actual search is for corrected spelling.....more clever clever stuff from google....

[seomike2003]

Hmm my targeted misspelling page is gone for one of my sites but another page of that site has taken it's place. Weird

[Terrier]

Another interesting thing I have noticed is if the keyword you target is both a one word and a two word term i.e. Kakle Berry or Kakleberry when you put search for Kakle-Berry G highlights both terms.
I wonder if the reverse would also be true?