Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/07/19

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Subject: Re: [Leica] search engine alternative to GOOGLE
From: Darrell Jennings <darrell_jennings@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2002 04:48:48 -0700 (PDT)

I see this as a feature. I have had many occasions
where I had a company name slightly off and found the
right one because of the Google suggestion. 
- --- Teresa299@aol.com wrote:
> 
> In a message dated 7/18/02 9:04:53 PM,
> reid@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us writes:
> 
> << 
> > 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.
>  >>
> 
> WOW.  Cool Brian.  Congrats on the new job.
> 
> 
> 
> -kim
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