• @UnderpantsWeevil
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    401 year ago

    Me: “Contrite”

    Autocorrect: “Did you mean Concrete?”

    Me: “No. Add to Dictionary

    Me: “Finagle”

    Autocorrect: “Did you mean Final?”

    Me: “No! Add to Dictionary

    Me: “Catapult”

    Autocorrect: “Bro, I don’t even know what that word is but I’m going to assume its misspelled.”

    Me: “God damnit. Add to Dictionary

    Me: “Phras”

    Autocorrect: “This is fine.”

    • @[email protected]
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      431 year ago

      As someone that has to search for obscure hardware and part numbers on a regular basis Google’s ‘did you mean’ is the bane of my existence.

          • lol3droflxp
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            11 year ago

            Personally I’m quite happy with DuckDuckGo. It seems to take stuff more literal than Google so keywords are handled better in my opinion. It isn’t trying to be as smart basically, has its pros and cons.

      • @[email protected]
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        71 year ago

        Using quotes around the part number might be of great help. It won’t ask you “did you mean” and will look specifically for pages that include that number.

        • @[email protected]
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          51 year ago

          Unfortunately that works less and less as “AI” continues to be more important in gathering results. Luckily there are other tricks like searching for pdfs only, exclude the ‘corrected’ words , or simply trying multiple search engines.