Spell checking errors can be hilarious

bachmeier no at spam.net
Wed Oct 14 20:35:13 UTC 2020


On Wednesday, 14 October 2020 at 20:29:48 UTC, Walter Bright 
wrote:
> On 10/14/2020 3:44 AM, Atila Neves wrote:
>>> It's not even searchable on the DLang site (e.g. using 
>>> site:dlang.org on DuckDuckGo);
>> 
>> I Ctrl-K'ed (i.e. went to the search bar in Firefox) and typed 
>> "site:dlang.org to". The first hit was the documentation for 
>> std.conv.to.
>> 
>> This was on Google. If anything this says more about 
>> duckduckgo.
>
>
> I read that Google customizes searches to the individual based 
> on their past behavior. So what other people see when they 
> search is not what you're likely to see, especially if Google 
> knows you hang out on dlang.org.

I don't use Google for anything but it comes up first for me. 
Anyone using the search bar in the upper right of this page will 
have it as the first result. It's the first result on Bing. It's 
the fifth result on DDG.


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