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I don't think it's reasonable to show one thing when the user typed another. There are dozens of product results, there's no reason why one of the proper resul

I don't think it's reasonable to show one thing when the user typed another. There are dozens of product results, there's no reason why one of the proper results wouldn't show up as well. "Results for Mousr ..." "Results for Mouse ..." etc

whoisjuan 8y ago
The 'r' is next to the 'e' in a qwerty keyboard. Quite honestly it's more likely for someone to make a typo and enter "mousr" than your case which is someone searching for a brand name that happens to be "mousr". It seems like the right optimization IMHO. I presume the p90 case for this would be people looking for an actual "mouse."
- dpark 8y ago
  Additionally, there’s a “search for mousr” link directly under the “Showing results for mouse” banner. It’s not as if they make it hard to do the exact match search.
- nitrogen 8y ago
  Why not show both?
cloakandswagger 8y ago
There is a link on the search result page for "Search instead for X" if you really want to search for "Mousr". There's also nothing wrong with correcting what appears to be a typo'd word for a user (Google and every other search engine I can think of does this). Seems more like poor naming on Mousr's part.
- sonnyblarney 8y ago
  Totally disagree, and it seems nobody understood my comment. I pointed out in that I'm fully aware where the probabilities are, and the fact the 'keys are close to one another' - that's my whole point, it's a statistical suppression. The 'short view' is to just show 'mice' - but there are problems with that: 1) 'over correction' is far worse error that 'insufficient correction' 2) There are tons of 'Mousr' products out there, i.e. products that overlap closely to more common things. The likelihood of some random error being a product is low - and since 'Mousr' is an actual product, it makes sense to show it. In this case, the rational product choice would be to show 'Mousr' first, and to not assume over-correction. To take a more extreme example i.e. going with the 'highest probability case' ... it might make sense by that logic to show only the most commonly purchases products purchase, almost whatever is typed.

whoisjuan 8y ago

The 'r' is next to the 'e' in a qwerty keyboard. Quite honestly it's more likely for someone to make a typo and enter "mousr" than your case which is someone searching for a brand name that happens to be "mousr". It seems like the right optimization IMHO. I presume the p90 case for this would be people looking for an actual "mouse."

dpark 8y ago
Additionally, there’s a “search for mousr” link directly under the “Showing results for mouse” banner. It’s not as if they make it hard to do the exact match search.
nitrogen 8y ago
Why not show both?

cloakandswagger 8y ago

There is a link on the search result page for "Search instead for X" if you really want to search for "Mousr". There's also nothing wrong with correcting what appears to be a typo'd word for a user (Google and every other search engine I can think of does this). Seems more like poor naming on Mousr's part.

sonnyblarney 8y ago
Totally disagree, and it seems nobody understood my comment. I pointed out in that I'm fully aware where the probabilities are, and the fact the 'keys are close to one another' - that's my whole point, it's a statistical suppression. The 'short view' is to just show 'mice' - but there are problems with that: 1) 'over correction' is far worse error that 'insufficient correction' 2) There are tons of 'Mousr' products out there, i.e. products that overlap closely to more common things. The likelihood of some random error being a product is low - and since 'Mousr' is an actual product, it makes sense to show it. In this case, the rational product choice would be to show 'Mousr' first, and to not assume over-correction. To take a more extreme example i.e. going with the 'highest probability case' ... it might make sense by that logic to show only the most commonly purchases products purchase, almost whatever is typed.