"Automatize"

[Laurence Horn]

On Jun 20, 2012, at 10:27 PM, Benjamin Barrett wrote:

> I love this feature. Sometimes, particularly on obscure scientific terms, it'll ask me if I meant something else that actually gets less hits, but a great deal of the time, Google's suggestions help me hone in on

[sic]?  or intended?

LH

> the expression I'm looking for.
>
> Google isn't ignoring anything widespread at all and in fact gives a definition for automatize on top of the hits.
>
> Benjamin Barrett
> Seattle, WA
>
> On Jun 20, 2012, at 6:51 PM, David Barnhart wrote:
>
>> Google asks:????
>>
>> What do the Google people know.  If they can't consider the widespread
>> distribution of the term in so many dictionaries, why not complain directly
>> to Google.  Maybe they'll wise up to the fact that they have enough space in
>> the cloud to include everything.
>>
>> Regards,
>> David
>>
>> barnhart at highlands.com
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