Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/07/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Will wrote: > > Apparently GOOGLE has instituted a new "feature" to their > search engine. When their program thinks you have > misspelled a word, they force an alternate spelling on you > and display the results for that spelling. Prior to this, > the program would ask "did you mean?" and allow the user a > choice as to what they meant. > > Since I have used google to research photography and the > older LUG goings-on and spend about 30 percent of my time at > work searching for and harvesting data, Google's big > advantage of using cached pages has been neutralized by > their new feature. > > Any suggestions for alternate search engines, preferably > with cached pages? > > Regards, Bill Larsen > wlarsen@ocsnet.net > I'm A Google kind of guy its my first search engine I'll try to use and I've found the new spelling feature has saved many a search. Never the other way around. I have a severe spelling disability. Mark Rabiner Portland, Oregon USA http://www.markrabiner.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html