I remember when Google used to ask me politely about my searches: "Did you mean: headgear?"
But now the all-powerful engine seems to have decided that's an unnecessary nicety, and just silently corrects my search into what it thinks I want.
It happens to me constantly. Here's an example: I was looking for information about San Antonio's Tropicano hotel, which I misremembered had an aviary full of parrots (in fact, they're beautiful toucans). Google knew I couldn't possibly want to search for Tropicano, though – I must have meant Tropicana:
Prepending a + sign to each search word keeps Google from thinking it knows better than I do, but that's an annoying workaround to have to do every time I search. It'd be nice if there was a preferences option at least: I mean what I say.
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