Thursday, April 28, 2011

What the fuck, Google?

I didn't know what chamming is, and I keep hearing it, so I decided to look it up. Well, apparently Google thought "Maybe he means charming?" but then second guessed itself so apparently...I'm getting results for both charming AND chamming. What the fuck. I love Google, but damn that's really annoying and disappointing. Plus, I can't find a way to fix it other than maybe just manually fixing this one search, but seriously. It shouldn't NEED fixing. Either search for what I searched for, or tell me what you THINK I'm trying to search for...not both at the same time.

Just found this tidbit:
Search exactly as is (+)
Google employs synonyms automatically, so that it finds pages that mention, for example, childcare for the query
  • [ child care ] (with a space), or California history for the query [ ca history ]. But sometimes Google helps out a little too much and gives you a synonym when you don't really want it. By attaching a + immediately before a word (remember, don't add a space after the +), you are telling Google to match that word precisely as you typed it. Putting double quotes around a single word will do the same thing.

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