When I type 'whether' into google

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28 Jun 2010, 4:07 pm

The first site returned is the BBC weather site. I find this utterly... I don't know. Worrying?

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28 Jun 2010, 5:31 pm

Do you type it on its own or in a sentence?

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28 Jun 2010, 6:19 pm

On it's own.

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28 Jun 2010, 7:26 pm

Moog wrote:

On it's own.

Oh the irony.

On it is own?

No.

On its own.

"Its" is a possessive pronoun. "It's" is contraction of "It is".

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28 Jun 2010, 8:19 pm

Oh yeah! I know that, and still do it, 'specially when I dash something off and don't check. Tsk.

My own bad habits are as much a concern for me as the entire internet's. I also mess up your and you're despite knowing how to use them correctly.

Dilbert, that kind of didacticism can feel very condescending. You might like to unhabit that.

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29 Jun 2010, 5:13 am

Burn lol.
I fear a dark future, not only will everyone have iphones (the horror!) but they'll do everything by saying it instead of entering text, or just making general bodily noises, thereby negating the need for grammaticised text altogether.

I feel the apple business idea spider has already read this text and they're working on a a phone with the "revolutionary" idea of calling people by saying their name into the phone. The end is nigh!

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29 Jun 2010, 5:15 am

Moog wrote:

Dilbert, that kind of didacticism can feel very condescending. You might like to unhabit that.

lol

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29 Jun 2010, 5:25 am

Moog wrote:

The first site returned is the BBC weather site. I find this utterly... I don't know. Worrying?

Why should it be worrying ?

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29 Jun 2010, 5:28 am

Asmodeus wrote:

Apple isn't doing this, but Google is:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laOlkD8LmZw[/youtube]

You do have to speak punctuation as well, though (why they called the full stop a "period", however, I don't know).

But I don't think it'll catch on, TBH. People don't want everyone around them to hear what they're typing into their phone.

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29 Jun 2010, 7:17 am

They've had voice commands for quite some time on cell phones. I had a phone in 2003 or so where I could just say "Mom" and it would dial her automatically. The end is closer than we think, muhaha.

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29 Jun 2010, 7:39 am

Psychopompos wrote:

Moog wrote:

The first site returned is the BBC weather site. I find this utterly... I don't know. Worrying?

Why should it be worrying?

Having a weather site pop up after someone asks "whether" is likely evidence of a search engine having been programmed to allow for a typo when someone was actually looking for "weather". Search engines second-guess me all the time. But yes, the overall "dumbing down" of people on this planet certainly can lead to wondering whether the weather really matters anyway.

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29 Jun 2010, 7:40 am

Oops!

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29 Jun 2010, 7:42 am

leejosepho wrote:

Psychopompos wrote:

Moog wrote:

The first site returned is the BBC weather site. I find this utterly... I don't know. Worrying?

Why should it be worrying?

It's probably the BBC inserting the "whether" metatag on their weather site, actually, not the search engine assuming you meant something else.

Complain to the BBC if you want, but I don't think it's a big deal anyway.

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29 Jun 2010, 7:45 am

Asp-Z wrote:

It's probably the BBC inserting the "whether" metatag on their weather site, actually, not the search engine assuming you meant something else.

Ah yes, I forgot about that possibility!

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29 Jun 2010, 7:47 am

If you want to search results for the word "whether" only, type it in quotation marks in google.

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29 Jun 2010, 7:48 am

leejosepho wrote:

Asp-Z wrote:

It's probably the BBC inserting the "whether" metatag on their weather site, actually, not the search engine assuming you meant something else.

Ah yes, I forgot about that possibility!

Actually, scratch that. I just checked the site's metatags and "whether" wasen't listed as one.

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