Re:Google Search Is Dying
by thaumasiotes on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @08:49PM
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>> "Google increasingly does not give you the results for what you typed in. It tries to be “smart” and figure out what you “really meant" ..."
> This is the most annoying behavior because I really mean what I write.
I hate this too. I do get typos corrected by Google. But I don't need that - if I put a typo in my query and get bad results, I can correct the typo myself. But if Google decides I must not have meant what I actually said, there's no way for me to correct that. It's a ridiculously bad tradeoff - we eliminate errors that are trivially fixed by introducing errors that can't be fixed at all.
I have similar feelings about phone input autocorrect, which automatically converts typos that are very easy to read into (mostly) correctly spelled words, plus (sometimes) completely unintelligible nonsense.
> This is the most annoying behavior because I really mean what I write.
I hate this too. I do get typos corrected by Google. But I don't need that - if I put a typo in my query and get bad results, I can correct the typo myself. But if Google decides I must not have meant what I actually said, there's no way for me to correct that. It's a ridiculously bad tradeoff - we eliminate errors that are trivially fixed by introducing errors that can't be fixed at all.
I have similar feelings about phone input autocorrect, which automatically converts typos that are very easy to read into (mostly) correctly spelled words, plus (sometimes) completely unintelligible nonsense.