I'm not worried about "evil" right now
Mar. 20th, 2011 04:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pecuniumI'm not even really thinking about stupid, no, yes I am.
Sometime in the moderate past Google decided I was too stupid to know how to type. Not that I might make mistakes, and completely bork a spelling, but that I might make a little one; say putting, "pecunium" in a search string when I meant "pecuniam".
Ok, I mean the form of the word I use is much less common because it's most normal usage is in quotations, where it's been declined, but they changed how they do that. It used to me that they asked me if I meant whatever the possible typo was. That was, actually, tolerably useful, because it expanded my search (if I'd made an error, be it typographical, or conceptual, in the spelling of a word, someone else might have too, and I'd get to see their site, as well as being able to find the canonic spelling; two for the price of one.
Now they pre-empt this possibility. I have to opt-out of the correction. Today I went to look up the greek letter, mu, and I got, "Showing results for unicode macron. Search instead for unicode micron".
I suppose if Google, which knows god knows what, would learn (I am pretty much always signed into my google account, even if I don't have gmail open) that this time, just like the last umpteen dozen time I've searched for "pecunium" I really meant it, this wouldn't have irked me to the point of making a public comment.
Assuming I am stupid... does not make me happy. Assuming I am stupid, as opposed to making the odd mistake, and so forcing me to figure out when they will decide I am not typing what I want to type; and put it in quotation marks, is not the way to give me a warm fuzzy about the way google sees people.
Just sayin'.
Sometime in the moderate past Google decided I was too stupid to know how to type. Not that I might make mistakes, and completely bork a spelling, but that I might make a little one; say putting, "pecunium" in a search string when I meant "pecuniam".
Ok, I mean the form of the word I use is much less common because it's most normal usage is in quotations, where it's been declined, but they changed how they do that. It used to me that they asked me if I meant whatever the possible typo was. That was, actually, tolerably useful, because it expanded my search (if I'd made an error, be it typographical, or conceptual, in the spelling of a word, someone else might have too, and I'd get to see their site, as well as being able to find the canonic spelling; two for the price of one.
Now they pre-empt this possibility. I have to opt-out of the correction. Today I went to look up the greek letter, mu, and I got, "Showing results for unicode macron. Search instead for unicode micron".
I suppose if Google, which knows god knows what, would learn (I am pretty much always signed into my google account, even if I don't have gmail open) that this time, just like the last umpteen dozen time I've searched for "pecunium" I really meant it, this wouldn't have irked me to the point of making a public comment.
Assuming I am stupid... does not make me happy. Assuming I am stupid, as opposed to making the odd mistake, and so forcing me to figure out when they will decide I am not typing what I want to type; and put it in quotation marks, is not the way to give me a warm fuzzy about the way google sees people.
Just sayin'.
