hahaha

hihihi

That's just based on previous Google searches.

We know that Jake's View, it's still funny

the entire google did you mean feature is based upon what people type, then change and re -submit.

In theory, if we were to get thousands of people to search "george bush" then change the sh to "llshit" and do it a few times, it'd say "did you mean george bullshit" everytime somebody searched george bush.

<< the entire google did you mean feature is based upon what people type, then change and re -submit.

I don't think that's all.

Who searches for uzuuuuuuu?
http://www.google.com/search?q=uzuuuuuuu&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&hl=en-US&client=firefox-a

"Google's spell checking software automatically looks at your query and checks to see if you are using the most common version of a word's spelling. If it calculates that you're likely to generate more relevant search results with an alternative spelling, it will ask "Did you mean: (more common spelling)?". Clicking on the suggested spelling will launch a Google search for that term. Because Google's spell check is based on occurrences of all words on the Internet, it is able to suggest common spellings for proper nouns (names and places) that might not appear in a standard spell check program or dictionary."

Just to be picky:
"I think if Google would be a person, it would be incredibly obnoxious."
I think most native English speakers would say:
"I think if Google was a person, it would be incredibly obnoxious."
(or "were Google a person")

I wouldn't be such a pedant if this post wasn't about pedantry.

Corrected, thnx!

PS: Grammar corrections are appreciated, how else am I ever gonna learn? :)

I hate when it corrects my incorrectly spelled word with a still wrong word. Is there some form or email to correct this?

lol, ideed! that ist true!

:-)

So see

http://www.google.com/search?q=misrael+failre

but compare

http://www.google.com/search?q=misrael+failr

same result in co.uk com.au and .ca and .il

but not .de or .fr

And for the fun of it

what is the shortest query (a-z letters only) that give a spelling suggestion in English?

If google were a person he would be quite a nerd, big thick coke bottle glasses and a reall geeky voice. Google would watch game shows all day and shout the answers out before the contestants could hit their buzzers.

Actually, even the google founders are obnoxious... So I think if Google were a person it would reflect the founders

I think Google Germany would be more of a nice, funny and helpful person. Just look at this example, it doesn't work with the international version, so it seems different Googles reflect national caharcters ;-):

http://www.google.de/search?hl=de&q=foooool

david sanger said:

<< what is the shortest query (a-z letters only) that give a spelling suggestion in English? >>

Here's a couple of four letter examples that suggest three letters:

anbd: http://www.google.com/search?q=anbd << Did you mean: and >>
cxan: http://www.google.com/search?q=cxan << Did you mean: can >>
...
etc.

(The problem with entering two and three letters is that most of them have been adopted as acronyms...)

http://www.google.com/search?q=gooooooogle

(this is because of those "ads by goooooogle" but still amusing)

Tony: A shorter example is iqh, which causes Google to ask "Did you mean: iq":

http://www.google.com/search?q=iqh

Roger Browne: Excellent work – I doubt anyone will be able to beat that!

hahahahahahaha
gosh i cant stop. Certainly if google were a person, he/she would remain a virgin all thru life.

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yes good, I had found "Did you mean: eqy " from

http://www.google.com/search?q=qqy

And another challenge:

What is the shortest word that gives no results and no correction?

I get " Your search – ddwseq – did not match any documents. "

from http://www.google.com/search?q=ddwseq

David: qj73x is a shorter "no result" search:
http://www.google.com/search?q=qj73x

It's easy to get shorter than that if you go to non-ASCII characters.

"PS: Grammar corrections are appreciated, how else am I ever gonna learn? :)"

Just so you know, that wasn't a grammar correction but rather a stylistic or "word flow" correction. Basically the sentence flows better without repeated words. (There is the literary device of parallel construction, but that doesn't fit in this case.) It was proper grammar.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%C3%97

^^

Just kiddin'

Haha, lots of the suggestions listed here now have one or more results, due to you specifying them here.