tbf, I don't feel the same way as the GP. But this search always struck me as crazy in the past.
tbf, I don't feel the same way as the GP. But this search always struck me as crazy in the past.
Yes, "google" is a suggested search when you type "hoogle", but that seems only fair. After all, G and H are next to each other on a QWERTY keyboard. I'm sure a typo for google swamps deliberate searches for hoogle (maybe even for me, but then I have a custom search keyword). They're also suggesting other Google services you might want (Translate, Maps and Drive, when I tried), not just the one you're already using.
More generally, I don't see how overly generic suggestions amount to dumbing-down Google Search. If I actually persist and search for "hoogle" (which I had to do anyway in the days before search suggestions) I get the Haskell results I want, even without any connection to my Google account.
I wonder if the increased search volume over the past hour since you posted this updated the probability that it was a mistyping?
It wouldn't surprise me - unique vocabulary (think hashtags) created all the time, and Google is pretty good at responding to that.