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On 31/10/2013 07:10, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Oct 2013 01:49:28 -0700, wxjmfauth wrote:
>
>>> The right solution to that is to treat it no differently from other
>>> fuzzy
>>> searches. A good search engine should be tolerant of spelling errors
>>> and
>>> alternative spellings for any letter, not just those with diacritics.
>>> Ideally, a good search engine would successfully match all three of
>>> "naïve", "naive" and "niave", and it shouldn't rely on special handling
>>> of diacritics.
>>
>> This is a non sense. The purpose of a diacritical mark is to make a
>> letter a different letter. If a tool is supposed to match an ô, there is
>> absolutely no reason to match something else.
>
>
> I'm glad that you know so much better than Google, Bing, Yahoo, and other
> search engines. When I search for "mispealled" Google gives me:
>
>      Showing results for misspelled
>      Search instead for mispealled
>
>
> But I see now that this is nonsense and there is *absolutely no reason*
> to match something other than the ecaxt wrods I typed.
>
> Perhaps you should submit a bug report to Google:
>
> "When I mistype a word, Google correctly gives me the search results I
> wanted, instead of the wrong results I didn't want."
>

I'm sorry Steven but you're completely out of your depth here.  Please 
bow down to the superior intellect of jmf, where jm is for Joseph McCarthy.

-- 
Python is the second best programming language in the world.
But the best has yet to be invented.  Christian Tismer

Mark Lawrence