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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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