Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/07/18

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Subject: Re: [Leica] search engine alternative to GOOGLE
From: Brian Reid <reid@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 21:02:12 -0700
References: <5.1.0.14.0.20020718230832.0513de40@earthlink.net> <001e01c22ed8$5d48a210$0a3aa8c0@almond>
 
> Apparently GOOGLE has instituted a new "feature" to their
> search engine.  When their program thinks you have
> misspelled a word, they force an alternate spelling on you
> and display the results for that spelling.

I am now Director of Operations at Google (new job), and I have not seen this "feature". Can you give me an example of a search string that exhibits this behavior? I'm quite certain I can get it fixed quickly if it can be made repeatable.

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