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Counter example: I just tried googling [how pronounce resig]. It thinks I want [how pronounce resignation]. Both +resig and "resig" didn't work (heck, I even

Counter example: I just tried googling [how pronounce resig]. It thinks I want [how pronounce resignation]. Both +resig and "resig" didn't work (heck, I even tried +"resig"). Had to add -resign -resignation. There is nothing technical about this search (unless Resig is such a unique last name that belongs to only John Resig). I'm sure there's lots more counter examples. I really doubt normal non-technical people actually likes the new google search. Btw, what's the answer? Only link I found was [1] someone says it's REH-sig, not REE-sig (not too sure what's the difference). But I'm more interested on how to pronounce the second part, is it more like "side"("sign" minus 'n'), "seed", "sad", or something else? [1] http://www.stevesouders.com/blog/2009/09/22/sau-drs-sour-not-super/#comment-839 http://www.stevesouders.com/blog/2009/09/22/sau-drs-sour-not...

moultano 15y ago
[how to pronounce "resig"] works for me now. (Or at least doesn't mess with the query, though the results aren't great.) Do you remember what results you were seeing before?
- fuzzythinker 15y ago
  yea, that seems to work now. Wasn't getting any "resig"'s at all before unless I added -resign -resignation. Now, ["pronounce" "resig"] seems to do the trick, as w/o quotes or just '+'s still gives resign and resignation results.
scott_s 15y ago
Actually, I don't think that's accurate. It's not auto-correcting "resig" to "resignation" as if you misspelled it. It just naturally happens that "pronounce" and "resig" almost always appear together when "resig" is a part of "resignation". Evidence for this is that your post is now hit number seven.
tomkarlo 15y ago
I'd suggest that if there's 100 users entering the query [how to pronounce resig], there are a lot more of them that have dropped the "n" from resign than are looking for the pronunciation of resig. And even more queries overall where "resig" was supposed to be "resign". I admit it's unfortunate that sites have to guess based on the behavior of the group (rather than knowing, for example, that you usually don't misspell things) but I'm not sure any of us individually has enough query history to make those kinds of guesses.

moultano 15y ago

[how to pronounce "resig"] works for me now. (Or at least doesn't mess with the query, though the results aren't great.) Do you remember what results you were seeing before?

fuzzythinker 15y ago
yea, that seems to work now. Wasn't getting any "resig"'s at all before unless I added -resign -resignation. Now, ["pronounce" "resig"] seems to do the trick, as w/o quotes or just '+'s still gives resign and resignation results.

scott_s 15y ago

Actually, I don't think that's accurate. It's not auto-correcting "resig" to "resignation" as if you misspelled it. It just naturally happens that "pronounce" and "resig" almost always appear together when "resig" is a part of "resignation". Evidence for this is that your post is now hit number seven.

tomkarlo 15y ago

I'd suggest that if there's 100 users entering the query [how to pronounce resig], there are a lot more of them that have dropped the "n" from resign than are looking for the pronunciation of resig. And even more queries overall where "resig" was supposed to be "resign". I admit it's unfortunate that sites have to guess based on the behavior of the group (rather than knowing, for example, that you usually don't misspell things) but I'm not sure any of us individually has enough query history to make those kinds of guesses.