Dear Google,
When I type some words into your search engine, I wish you to search for those terms. I do not wish you to predict what you think I am searching for, and present those results instead.
If I have typed in 'Haikou haiku' it is because there is a Chinese fossil-rich town called Haikou and I am interested to know if any haiku have been written about it. I do not expect to have to 'Search instead for haikou haiku'.
Similarly, if I have typed in 'semaphoront coding' it is because I heard someone use it in a talk at PalAss 2012 in Dublin and hadn't the faintest idea what it meant. I do not want to know about semaphore coding.
I could give numerous other examples, but I can't be bothered. I am so fed up with your presumptiousness and your auto-correction (not to mention your tax avoidance) that I am going to switch to another search engine. I am informed that Duck Duck Go is worth a try.
I recognize this is a token gesture, since you own this very site where I am blogging, but never let it be said I don't make hollow gestures for the right reasons.
Yours searchingly,
Disgruntled of North Yorkshire
When I type some words into your search engine, I wish you to search for those terms. I do not wish you to predict what you think I am searching for, and present those results instead.
If I have typed in 'Haikou haiku' it is because there is a Chinese fossil-rich town called Haikou and I am interested to know if any haiku have been written about it. I do not expect to have to 'Search instead for haikou haiku'.
Similarly, if I have typed in 'semaphoront coding' it is because I heard someone use it in a talk at PalAss 2012 in Dublin and hadn't the faintest idea what it meant. I do not want to know about semaphore coding.
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| Lima in semaphore code. |
I could give numerous other examples, but I can't be bothered. I am so fed up with your presumptiousness and your auto-correction (not to mention your tax avoidance) that I am going to switch to another search engine. I am informed that Duck Duck Go is worth a try.
I recognize this is a token gesture, since you own this very site where I am blogging, but never let it be said I don't make hollow gestures for the right reasons.
Yours searchingly,
Disgruntled of North Yorkshire
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