What happens when you misspell words using Google?

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Today I spot a spelling error of Google News in the headline:

MS releases Windows Vista test vertion for businesses
Xinhua - 11 hours ago
BEIJING, Feb. 23 (Xinhuanet) -- Microsoft Corp. has released on Wednesday a feature-complete test version of Windows Vista, the next version of the Windows operating system to businesses. Microsoft plans to ...

Version, not vertion.:biggrin:
 
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oh no, please tell me you didn't click on the link. You just opened up the vertion virus. Don't you listen to the news?
 
are you just kidding?
 
what? isn't it a spelling error?
 
where got such word vertion? It is VERSION
 
Looks like they are trying to target the younger audience with slang and bad spelling.
 
Offtopic: It's actually Googol not Google. Google is a spelling error so Sergey and Larry probably thought it was cool and stuck with that one.
 
tribdog said:
oh no, please tell me you didn't click on the link. You just opened up the vertion virus. Don't you listen to the news?

Wow, now that was a good one.
 
1) Who cares?

2) Google doesn't write the headlines. :rolleyes: They just pull headlines from various news sources.

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What's interesting is what you can come up with if you type a misspelling into google. You'll be prompted to choose the correct spelling, but still linked to all the sites where the same misspelling was made.

If you misspell this guy's name: Helmholtz

http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Helmholtz.html

You accidently find out about this guy: Helmholz

http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2003/11/04_helmholz.shtml