Google's getting too clever

[damerell]

If you type "fpri," into a Google search box, it knows you meant "forum". Clever chaps!

(Move your right hand one key right and look at the keyboard).

Comments

[thorfinn]

There was a time when I could read that fluently, and tell which hand the typer had shifted and which way. Misspent youth on IRC...

[ptc24]

Hmmm, I tried "fpri," and got a lot about the Foreign Policy Research Institute. But something like "java fpri," did indeed give hits to java forums.

[jack]

Hm. Does google do the translation internally, or is it that sufficiently many people have mistyped it can heuristically connect them? I dont' know what's more impressive.