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This seriously happened?! That's messed up and I didn't even notice, except that my searches have not been as easy and crisp, but I've always blamed that on SEO

• petercooper 17y ago
  Yeah. There are lots of good examples I come across all the time but because I can't remember them, try something silly like "web bosting". You'll notice words like "boosting" and "boating" are in bold in the 23 million results. With "web +bosting" you get just a few thousand results and "bosting" is in all of them. (Yeah, this is a horrible example but I've had many instances of good ones, often relating to programming terms which then trigger off similarly spelled words..)
  • philwelch 17y ago
    I quit using Bing forever when it autocorrected "clojure" to "closure" and offered no obvious workaround.
    • paulgb 17y ago
      At least it didn't autocorrect to F#, then I'd be suspicious :-).
    • restruct 17y ago
      Try: +clojure
    • endtime 17y ago
      For what it's worth, I've contacted the appropriate people and the Bing speller team has reproed the issue and is investigating. Sorry you ran into it.
  • JacobAldridge 17y ago
    I find it annoying with plurals - my business is called Shirlaws, and 'Shirlaw' is a not-uncommon surname, meaning searches and especially Google Alerts are often filled with some guy coming third in a yacht race not information pertaining to my business. That Google searches ignore punctuation also irritates me. My wife's name is Harmony - also a fairly common word - so searches for her throw up masses of "...live in harmony. Aldridge also thought ..." which are irrelevant. "Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried" - Winston Churchill.