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Re:On the growing, intentional uselessness of Google search ... by stephaniepier on Thursday February 25, 2016 @12:14PM (#11175894)
This happens to me frequently. I've also noticed that sometimes the "Did you mean [this]?" or "Search instead for [this]" don't show up anymore, which can be a big problem. As an example, it's difficult to find information on the company "Amazone" because Google insists on correcting it to Amazon. Usually putting things in quotes fixes it, but it's annoying when I know what I want to search for and Google keeps assuming I want something else.
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Re:On the growing, intentional uselessness of Google search ... by soared on Thursday February 25, 2016 @01:47PM (#11176681)
Except that in 99% of cases, Google is correct. The pure volume of people mistyping Amazon is good enough reason to autocorrect "Amazone." You know what you want to search for. So tell google what you want, "Amazone."

I don't see how you can complain when you have the solution to the problem, don't use it, and are an incredibly niche (<1%) case.

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Re:On the growing, intentional uselessness of Google search ... by CaptSpify on Thursday February 25, 2016 @02:51PM (#11177267)
For me, the frustration is that quotes usually fix it, but definitely not always. Also, they don't always tell you that they are auto-correcting. I agree that it's niche and, as he's the outlier, he should have to work around the system, but that's only true if the system is, for lack of a better term, "honest", which it isn't always.
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Re:On the growing, intentional uselessness of Google search ... by stephaniepier on Thursday February 25, 2016 @04:34PM (#11177998)
Agreed. I should have emphasized that usually quotes fix it. They don't seem to every time for some reason.
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Re:On the growing, intentional uselessness of Google search ... by stephaniepier on Thursday February 25, 2016 @04:30PM (#11177963)
I agree, and Amazone probably wasn't the best example. My point is that even when I search for something in quotes Google still autocorrects it (not talking specifically about Amazone here that was just one example I've encountered in the past). This is especially true when I have to find a person whose name isn't spelled normally.
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Re:On the growing, intentional uselessness of Google search ... by swe on Thursday February 25, 2016 @02:41PM (#11177180)
Love to see where you found that 99% figure
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Re:On the growing, intentional uselessness of Google search ... by soared on Thursday February 25, 2016 @11:38PM (#11179822)
Look it up on adwords if you want more specific data, but this chart showsit https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=amazon%2C%20amazone&...
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Re:On the growing, intentional uselessness of Google search ... by epimetheus on Thursday February 25, 2016 @02:45PM (#11177208)
Yeah, this works for me by just clicking "Search Instead for Amazone" - it even remembers it next time for me - I also was easily able to strip out Amazon results by adding -Amazon to the query.
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Re:On the growing, intentional uselessness of Google search ... by theseatoms on Thursday February 25, 2016 @01:05PM (#11176300)
I mean... Amazone should probably change their name.
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Re:On the growing, intentional uselessness of Google search ... by gherkin0 on Thursday February 25, 2016 @01:23PM (#11176479)
Is it this Amazone?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazonen-Werke

> the company was founded in 1883

I'm reminded of this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADgS_vMGgzY

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Re:On the growing, intentional uselessness of Google search ... by stephaniepier on Thursday February 25, 2016 @04:31PM (#11177969)
Yeah that's the one I had in mind.
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Re:On the growing, intentional uselessness of Google search ... by SixSigma on Thursday February 25, 2016 @01:18PM (#11176422)
When I search for Amazone the only result for Amazon is one for a product called Amazone. All the rest are Amazone domain names or Amazone the movie
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Re:On the growing, intentional uselessness of Google search ... by fixermark on Thursday February 25, 2016 @01:19PM (#11176436)
If you are logged in to Google, and search for Amazone, then click the "search instead for Amazone" option, Google should remember your preference the next time you search.
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Re:On the growing, intentional uselessness of Google search ... by stephaniepier on Thursday February 25, 2016 @04:33PM (#11177985)
Interesting, I just tried that. It's been a long time since I've searched for Amazone (that was just the first example that came to mind) but I don't remember seeing that in the past.
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