14 DAY TRIAL // Google's search engine is one of the most used technologies on the internet with millions of visitors every day. Because it is so popular, it's obvious that a lot of users are making typing mistakes so the results are different from the ones they were looking for. Since the release of the search engine, Google provided a "Did you mean" option that was meant to correct your search query and help you search for the right phrase. A Google advisory presents us the common typing mistakes for Britney Spears, one of the most popular search term on the giant search engine.
"The data below shows some of the misspellings detected by our spelling correction system for the query [ britney spears ], and the count of how many different users spelled her name that way. Each of these variations was entered by at least two different unique users within a three month period, and was corrected to [ britney spears ] by our spelling correction system (data for the correctly spelled query is shown for comparison)," Google said. The statistics show us that 40134 user typed "brittany spears" instead of the correct phrase while 36315 entered the "brittney spears" search query.
It's obvious that Google users wanted a function that can correct all the mistakes made in the search query, a new feature that was presented yesterday by Google's employees. Although the function was included into all services provided by the search giant, it seems like it is not so well developed, providing weird corrections for certain keywords.
"Unfortunate Google search result -- if you search for "African ingenuity" on Google, it will ask "Did you mean: American Ingenuity" blogger Mark Frauenfelder said in a post. It seems like the suggestion was removed from the Google's search engine result page but you can see it in the picture place at the beginning of the article.