{"id":293,"date":"2008-01-14T16:05:59","date_gmt":"2008-01-14T21:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/?p=293"},"modified":"2008-01-14T16:05:59","modified_gmt":"2008-01-14T21:05:59","slug":"how-does-google-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/?p=293","title":{"rendered":"How Does Google Work?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don’t know how Google works. I applied for a job as an editor there, but decided that they weren’t right for me.* So I guess I’ll never know.<\/p>\n

Today, as a sort of joke having nothing to do with Google, I created a foreign sounding phrase, and posted it as a comment on a friend’s blog post<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Then, just for kicks, I searched Google to see if it would come up with anything on my phrase. Not surprisingly, it didn’t.<\/p>\n

But it DID have a question. I’m sure we’ve all seen this before: Google asked me whether maybe I meant to spell one of my search items a little differently. Here’s what they said:<\/p>\n

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So, sure, I decided to give that a go. Did it then find something based on that new, suggested phrase?<\/p>\n

Nope. Here’s what I got:<\/p>\n

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Now, what’s going on there? What brought on the first suggestion, which obviously had no search results associated with it?<\/p>\n

And, if it has no problem suggesting random, worthless changes, why stop there? Why not keep suggesting changes?<\/p>\n

I’m confused.<\/p>\n

* They rejected me after a phone interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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