Spell checking errors can be hilarious

Andrei Alexandrescu SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org
Tue Oct 13 14:01:55 UTC 2020


On 10/13/20 7:53 AM, Ogi wrote:
> On Monday, 12 October 2020 at 17:04:01 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
>> The unfortunate thing in the video was 'to' is not searchable on the 
>> internet and it took them a long time to figure out how to use a 
>> to!string expression. :/
> 
> When I try to search for “dlang to” in Google, the first result points 
> to std.conv.to page. Their problem was that their queries looked like 
> “dlang to template”, “dlang import to module” etc. Search engines are 
> doing a good job at searching “unsearchable” things unless you pollute 
> your query with irrelevant words.

Also: most of the time people want to convert something to something 
else so they'd search for dlang convert. All of the first page results 
are relevant, with std.conv at the top.



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