Spell checking errors can be hilarious

Atila Neves atila.neves at gmail.com
Fri Oct 16 16:30:43 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.

Correct - and it'd be likely of anyone else searching for that as 
well.


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