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Odd Yahoo! "Did you mean..."

Martin Porcheron [PersonRank 10]

Thursday, July 12, 2007
16 years ago2,381 views

When searching for my site in Yahoo! they've added a "Did you mean..." to the top of the query. But that's all it says, it doesn't offer any suggestions of what I meant.

http://search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=A0geu5CXLJZGEI0AvURXNyoA?p=mpwebwizard&y=Search&fr=yfp-t-501-s&fp_ip=UK&rd=r1&meta=vc%3Duk

Rohit Srivastwa [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

It also tries merging result from the nearest "did-you-mean" value
That's bad

Suggest me, but don't mix my results
http://search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=A0oGkmrVX5ZGHaQAxLpXNyoA?p=rohit+srivastwa&y=Search&fr=yfp-t-501-s&fp_ip=UK&rd=r1&meta=vc%3Duk

Philipp Lenssen [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

Here it reads

   Did you mean: mp web wizard

Martin Porcheron [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

>> Did you mean: mp web wizard

I used to have this (on Google aswell), Google stopped suggesting it after a while and I was checking to see if Yahoo! had stopped suggesting it.
http://img471.imageshack.us/img471/1269/capturepb4.jpg

Interestingly, the UK Yahoo! search suggests "mp web wizard". But on Rohit's query states that it has "included results for rohit srivastava".
http://img527.imageshack.us/img527/6018/capturexq9.jpg

Sohil [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

<<It also tries merging result from the nearest "did-you-mean" value
That's bad

Suggest me, but don't mix my results
search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=A ...>>

Google does the same thing (not for the exact query but in principle it merges results sometimes too – It's just sooo annoying)

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