AAARGGGHHH!--Google and spelling

Ken Hirsch kenhirsch at FTML.NET
Fri Apr 16 16:50:47 UTC 2010


You misspelled AAARRRGGGHHH:

http://www.google.com/search?q=AAARGGGHHH
<http://www.google.com/search?q=AAARGGGHHH>Did you mean:
*AAARRRGGGHHH*<http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ei=7ZTIS-fVIcL-8AaUkdyFBw&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&ved=0CA0QBSgA&q=AAARRRGGGHHH&spell=1>


<http://www.google.com/search?q=AAARGGGHHH>

On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 4:20 PM, victor steinbok <aardvark66 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Well, it's official. Google is now a formal authority on spelling. And
> I don't mean that you can use Google to find dictionaries. No! We are
> now suppose to use the search suggestions that Google so helpfully
> provides as a spelling guide. If a misspelling or the wrong word gets
> more hits on Google than the one you are looking for--you're shit out
> of luck.
>
>

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