Yahoo search broken for ‘planypus’
Posted 21 February 2008 @ 6pm | Tagged thoughts
You’ve gotta love it when software assumes it’s smarter than the user. Google finds planypus just fine but search for planypus on Yahoo and all you get are links to platypus related items. Now there are tons of planypus links on the web – why is it that Yahoo decides to just completely throw that out the window in favor of a dictionary word that happens to be close?
It’s one thing to offer a ‘did you mean’ — that can actually be helpful. But entirely destroying search queries that return thousands of results because you assume the user messed up is not only useless but insulting. Please give your users some credit and if the search string returns hits, show them what they’ve been searching for!
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