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I think the analogy is flawed, but for a different reason - if you're given the wrong dish in a restaraunt, you can't correct it in less than two seconds.

I would rather have a search that corrected typos and aimed for the best result which I could rapidly correct than a search which slavishly returned "No results for 'hgihway', did you mean 'highway'?" (as a simple example).



DuckDuckGo corrects typos: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=hgihway

If you actually want to search for "hgihway", search for "+hgihway": https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%2Bhgihway

Of course, Google has results for "hgihway": https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&sa=X&ei=mV...




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