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.
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