Google Search April 14, 2002 9:01 PM Subscribe
'Your original search: beer bottle betadene was misspelled and returned 0 results. The corrected search: beer bottle betadine was done instead and the results appear below.' Has Google always done this (ie, this just happens to be my first misspelled search to score zero hits), or is it something new?
The 'did you mean foo' thing still shows up for mistyped searches that score some hits.
As for the search, it's not as bad as it sounds; somebody on a homebrewing list asked if bottles needed to be rinsed if they were sterilised with Betadine. That's my story, anyways, and I'm stickin' to it :)
posted by obiwanwasabi at 9:22 PM on April 14, 2002
As for the search, it's not as bad as it sounds; somebody on a homebrewing list asked if bottles needed to be rinsed if they were sterilised with Betadine. That's my story, anyways, and I'm stickin' to it :)
posted by obiwanwasabi at 9:22 PM on April 14, 2002
It may have something to do with safe search... They just added a new system or, updated it somehow.
Try turning it off. When I turned on "moderate filtering" it sent me to the corrected results... when I turned safe search completely off, it asked me if I wanted to go the the corrected results. Go to the google search preferences page and change it.
posted by Dean_Paxton at 10:01 PM on April 14, 2002
Try turning it off. When I turned on "moderate filtering" it sent me to the corrected results... when I turned safe search completely off, it asked me if I wanted to go the the corrected results. Go to the google search preferences page and change it.
posted by Dean_Paxton at 10:01 PM on April 14, 2002
type in 3 barely-related words and choose to "search metafilter" and you'll be greeted with the oddest excerpts from past threads. it's awesome.
posted by moz at 10:04 PM on April 14, 2002
posted by moz at 10:04 PM on April 14, 2002
(that's on mefi's search page -- i edited that part out because i'm a dork, i suppose.)
posted by moz at 10:05 PM on April 14, 2002
posted by moz at 10:05 PM on April 14, 2002
Try turning it off.
It's already off. Changing the 'safe' setting appears to have no effect on the 'beer bottle betadene' search.
posted by obiwanwasabi at 10:21 PM on April 14, 2002
It's already off. Changing the 'safe' setting appears to have no effect on the 'beer bottle betadene' search.
posted by obiwanwasabi at 10:21 PM on April 14, 2002
Obiwanwasabi: was all this elaborate farandole for us to find out you're actually Wasabi Obi-Wan, the well-known advanced tennis player from Arcadia? Well, if it was, it worked. Number 11, huh? Not at all bad. I'm priming my respect pump as I speak. Quite MetaFilter's little Rod Laver, aren't we?
posted by MiguelCardoso at 10:30 PM on April 14, 2002
posted by MiguelCardoso at 10:30 PM on April 14, 2002
(scratching head)
Well, when I went through the same exercise using mozilla (changing settings, re-doing the search, etc) it did the same thing to me as it is to you. But with I.E., it prompts me to click on the corrected results.
posted by Dean_Paxton at 10:48 PM on April 14, 2002
Well, when I went through the same exercise using mozilla (changing settings, re-doing the search, etc) it did the same thing to me as it is to you. But with I.E., it prompts me to click on the corrected results.
posted by Dean_Paxton at 10:48 PM on April 14, 2002
you're actually Wasabi Obi-Wan, the well-known advanced tennis player from Arcadia?
Bastard! The net just isn't ready for two mustard-related Jedi.
posted by obiwanwasabi at 12:32 AM on April 15, 2002
Bastard! The net just isn't ready for two mustard-related Jedi.
posted by obiwanwasabi at 12:32 AM on April 15, 2002
I noticed the same thing for the first time yesterday. Perhaps it's a new feature. Is getting results for something you didn't search for more irritating than not getting results for something you did?
posted by Grangousier at 12:33 AM on April 15, 2002
posted by Grangousier at 12:33 AM on April 15, 2002
Does "I'm priming my respect pump as I speak" sound kinda...dirty to you folks, too?
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 2:45 AM on April 15, 2002
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 2:45 AM on April 15, 2002
I noticed this yesterday too. I went to the preferences page and the filter was already off. What ended up working for me was changing the preference to something else and then back to the "No Filter" preference.
posted by anathema at 5:01 AM on April 15, 2002
posted by anathema at 5:01 AM on April 15, 2002
It looks like a new feature that auto-searches for what Google considers the corrected text if your search returns 0 results. If your misspelt search returns results, it shows those and just provides the suggested correction.
posted by yerfatma at 5:03 AM on April 15, 2002
posted by yerfatma at 5:03 AM on April 15, 2002
I can also report that the same thing happened to me for the first time during a search I did yesterday. In that case it was very very helpful, as I was looking up a word I'd only heard via a phone conversation.
posted by arielmeadow at 6:14 PM on April 15, 2002
posted by arielmeadow at 6:14 PM on April 15, 2002
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I won't ask why you were searching for that frightening combination of words...
posted by evanizer at 9:12 PM on April 14, 2002