Google silently correcting search terms. Anyone else having this problem?

12 points by guantes 15 years ago | 6 comments

I've noticed recently that it's become hard to do google searches that aren't "mainstream". For example, if I search for "riak configure listen interface", "riak" is automatically corrected to "risk" without showing the usual "showing results for..." text.

Screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/tuNhF.png

Anyone have a good way around this that doesn't involve adding a + to every search term?

guantes 15 years ago |

Clickable: http://i.imgur.com/tuNhF.png

jakkinabox 15 years ago | |

I have experienced this and it's really, really annoying. A solution is to put the word in quotation marks.

bartonfink 15 years ago |

Is there a technical reason why Google couldn't use some sort of "I know what I'm doing" setting to disable some or all of the help they're doing now? Quoting every word feels like a hack that could go away at any minute.

spooneybarger 15 years ago |

this has been happening to me when using google instant and really annoying me. if i type slowly, it wont correct on me, if i type fast it does correction. sometimes large ones.

allanchao 15 years ago | |

Unrelated to autocorrection, but my little rant. If I type fast Google instant only catches the first half of what I type. I don't know what kind of javascript runs instant but it fails for fast typers. Happens on different computers and different browsers. =(

PonyGumbo 15 years ago |

Yes, this has been happening to me too. It's particularly frustrating when I search from my phone.