AW: Mappings - some examples

Shawn Steele Shawn.Steele at microsoft.com
Thu Dec 3 04:21:54 CET 2009


http://www.bing.com/search?q=congre%C5%BFs&src=IE-SearchBox&FORM=IE8SRC 

Of course it makes other suggestions, but this one happens to work.

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From: idna-update-bounces at alvestrand.no [mailto:idna-update-bounces at alvestrand.no] On Behalf Of Michael Everson
Sent: ,  02,  2009 0:39
To: IDNA update work
Subject: Re: AW: Mappings - some examples

On 2 Dec 2009, at 05:27, Patrik Fältström wrote:

> Google already today "correct" my spellings in a way so that it is 
> increasingly (yes, it is getting worse) hard to search for words that 
> are correctly spelled in Swedish, but Google think it is a misspelling 
> in English.
>
> I have wanted for some time an ability to turn off Googles "help" ;-)

Sometimes I have wanted a different search engine. I still cannot understand why Google has no expert search mode that allows me to search for **exactly** the string I want. Years back one could look for "congreſs" with LONG S and exclude "congress". Now one cannot.

Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/

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