[geeks] Google Irritation

[Shannon Hendrix]

On Feb 25, 2009, at 02:48 , Mark Benson wrote:

> On 24 Feb 2009, at 19:31, 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.
>
> AFAIK it only does a search for something it thinks is more correct  
> if it doesn't find any results for what you typed in, otherwise it  
> subtly suggests in big bold blue letters you typed it wrong, but  
> finds what you typed in... Or at least that's how I took it to work.

This is not true.

I frequently search for word pairs, and Google freely mixes what I  
searched for in with all kinds of crap I did not search for.

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