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Your original search: webmisterworld returned zero results.
The alternate spelling: webmasterworld returned the results below.
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With red horizontal lines. Nice touch!
This has been around for a while now, there was a thread on it somewhere, I will see if I can find it.
Dazz
:) although you may be able to find it quicker than me
If I do a typo I'll realize it quickly by getting off or zero results.
I do not like other "people" guessing what's best for me. It's a bit like automatic redirects for language choices etc.
Not a big thing but I'd rather they didn't.
However, for "power" users, it can be annoying when you are looking for one thing and Google redirects you to a different search.
If i remember rightly this is correct, I may have read it in a different forum but I am sure it was here.
Unless I am going insane :)
Dazz
Here I got all excited, I've never seen this, not even one time!
I just saw it redirecting my searches for rather specific items occasionally. Too specific then, I presume.
Since any auto-correcting would affect this I did a couple of searches on this word. Although the first few results that pop up for both are the same, they are different after about five or six. I assume this is because it's a common mis-spelling so the popular sites are linked to by people using both versions (or something). I can see how the similarity in sites returned makes it appear that the results are being corrected for me but I don't think they really are.
I hate the idea of any auto-correcting of results because I often search for scientific terms or local NZ slang which google thinks are spelled wrong when they aren't. But it doesn't appear to me that this is the case.
And I really like the idea of a corrected results set suggested if there are no results returned because at best it saves me an extra page-click and at worst does no harm (I can always just ignore them and do a new search).
Marcia - I've been redirected a bunch of times, but I hadn't remembered seeing the red lines before. It takes a designer's eye....
I absolutely hate the automatic redirection. I'd much rather do that extra click myself.
Brett should register webmisterworld quickly... It could become the GQ of the online community.
Too late Beachboy, I already did, it's over in Foo. Try a Google search for it :)
>popular sites are linked to by people using both versions
Just so my belated discovery isn't a total waste, there are some words commonly and easily mis-spelled. Found by accident, the word applicance (appliance) is easy to do because it's more frequent to type application, so the "c" easily creeps in. It might not be a bad idea to deliberately link with the misspelled version if it's a good one.
>Brett should register webmisterworld quickly...
I'm partial to webmistressworld, myself. It was available when I last checked, but it's probably gone by now.
Yes, of course. Sorry for the omission. Both then....
