[geeks] Google Irritation

[Michael Parson]

On Tue, 24 Feb 2009, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:

> Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 17:01:09 -0500
> From: Sridhar Ayengar <ploopster at gmail.com>
> Reply-To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
> To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
> Subject: Re: [geeks] Google Irritation
> 
> Mike Meredith wrote:
>> On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 14:31:36 -0500, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
>>> Is there any way to prevent Google from "correcting" my spelling?
>>> I'm trying to search for something, and it keeps searching for what
>>> it "thinks" I'm searching for.
>> 
>> That's strange ... it'll tell me that I should really be searching for
>> what it thinks the word should be spelt as ("Did you mean: Color
>> bits" (bloody cheek ... that's a spelling issue in itself here)), but
>> goes ahead and searches for the "bad" spelling anyway. There didn't
>> seem to be any options to change this behaviour that I could see.
>
> Try searching for "atlast".  8-(

I did:

atlast -"at last"

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Michael Parson
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