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Autocorrect and the search feature

kurthurtkurthurt Posts: 0
edited December 1969 in The Commons

IMO, the autocorrect on the search feature is a too aggressive.

This morning I was looking for the Kensie dress, and searched in the text box for "kinsie". A misspelling, I know, for which I should be flooged and such. My third grade teacher has duly been notified.

The autocorrect "corrected" it to inside and showed me the results for the search term: "inside".

I tried again: "kinsie dress" - the autocorrect parsed it to "inside dress".

I verified the spelling with Google, and then tried to search "kensie dress".

The search gave me the results for "dress".

I still haven't found it. In fact, the kensie dress may be something I found on another site. It's still upsetting though that Daz autocorrects one word to a completely different word

Comments

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 100,784
    edited December 1969

    It does that only if it can't find the word as typed - it's not so much auto-correct as a machine's best-guess at what was intended, though the guesses can be strange.

  • LycanthropeXLycanthropeX Posts: 2,287
    edited December 1969

    i have entered in the exact name of a product or vender, no spelling errors, and had it bring up something completely different. not often but enough times that it has annoyed me.

  • kurthurtkurthurt Posts: 0
    edited December 1969

    Richard Haseltine said:
    It does that only if it can't find the word as typed - it's not so much auto-correct as a machine's best-guess at what was intended, though the guesses can be strange.

    Instead of the current system, Can we get a statement to that effect with a clickable suggestion?

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 100,784
    edited December 1969

    kurthurt said:
    Richard Haseltine said:
    It does that only if it can't find the word as typed - it's not so much auto-correct as a machine's best-guess at what was intended, though the guesses can be strange.

    Instead of the current system, Can we get a statement to that effect with a clickable suggestion?

    For that your best bet to get the request logged would be to open a support ticket for General Feedback

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