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Re:Google Recently Made A Silent Shift To A New Search Algor... by chimeracoder on Thursday September 26, 2013 @06:04PM (#6453931)
Wow. I was definitely not expecting this: http://i.imgur.com/9Zpqota.png

Thanks for pointing that out.

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Re:Google Recently Made A Silent Shift To A New Search Algor... by pbhjpbhj on Thursday September 26, 2013 @06:51PM (#6454116)
That's a massive fail for Google IMO. Why isn't it matching phrases for the search recommendation? Surely "to err is human" popularised by Pope [a million plus results] should be suggested before "to heir is human" (a minor computer game) [60k results].
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Re:Google Recently Made A Silent Shift To A New Search Algor... by nl on Thursday September 26, 2013 @10:39PM (#6454945)
Interesting!

"heir" is a much closer match for "hair" in terms of Levenshtein distance[1] (which indicates a typing error) and soundex[2] (misheard). But clearly "to err is human" should be offered as a possibility too.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levenshtein_distance

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soundex

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