"If you look at random queries, something like 10% of them might be misspelled," Matt explains.
When Google realized that so many queries were misspelled, that's when they decided to write what Matt refers to as one of the world's best spell checkers.
But even if you have huge click thru on "did you mean," there are always some people who didn't realize it was there, he says.
Google recently introduced a change where they spell correct what they think is the right answer for one or two results, then they'll show the normal answers underneath.
- put the query in double quotes
- put double quotes even on a single word
"We try to be smart," Matt says. "If someone types something that looks like it's a misspelling, but it's not, we'll try to figure that out over time. It's not a case where we roll something out and never make any more changes for several years."
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He says Google tries to go with what works for the majority of peoople, and then tries to improve upon it and correct mistakes when it rolls out the next iteration of its algorithm.
Let's not forget that Google recently made some
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