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This happens to me frequently. I've also noticed that sometimes the "Did you mean [this]?" or "Search instead for [this]" don't show up anymore, which can be a big problem. As an example, it's difficult to find information on the company "Amazone" because Google insists on correcting it to Amazon. Usually putting things in quotes fixes it, but it's annoying when I know what I want to search for and Google keeps assuming I want something else.

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Except that in 99% of cases, Google is correct. The pure volume of people mistyping Amazon is good enough reason to autocorrect "Amazone." You know what you want to search for. So tell google what you want, "Amazone."

I don't see how you can complain when you have the solution to the problem, don't use it, and are an incredibly niche (<1%) case.

Love to see where you found that 99% figure

Look it up on adwords if you want more specific data, but this chart showsit https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=amazon%2C%20amazone&...

Yeah, this works for me by just clicking "Search Instead for Amazone" - it even remembers it next time for me - I also was easily able to strip out Amazon results by adding -Amazon to the query.

For me, the frustration is that quotes usually fix it, but definitely not always. Also, they don't always tell you that they are auto-correcting. I agree that it's niche and, as he's the outlier, he should have to work around the system, but that's only true if the system is, for lack of a better term, "honest", which it isn't always.

Agreed. I should have emphasized that usually quotes fix it. They don't seem to every time for some reason.

I agree, and Amazone probably wasn't the best example. My point is that even when I search for something in quotes Google still autocorrects it (not talking specifically about Amazone here that was just one example I've encountered in the past). This is especially true when I have to find a person whose name isn't spelled normally.

I mean... Amazone should probably change their name.

Is it this Amazone?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazonen-Werke

> the company was founded in 1883

I'm reminded of this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADgS_vMGgzY

Yeah that's the one I had in mind.

When I search for Amazone the only result for Amazon is one for a product called Amazone. All the rest are Amazone domain names or Amazone the movie

If you are logged in to Google, and search for Amazone, then click the "search instead for Amazone" option, Google should remember your preference the next time you search.

Interesting, I just tried that. It's been a long time since I've searched for Amazone (that was just the first example that came to mind) but I don't remember seeing that in the past.

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