Google funny, or Google Ha Ha?
I search google on ’safari font embedding’ and get 1 (one) find, of a German language link...
I search google on ’safari font embeding’ (and it asks me if I mean ’safari font embedding’), but in any case, it gives me 360,000 matches, or 359,999 more on the wrong spelling.
Hmmmmm.....
Cheers!
14.Apr.2008 7.22am
For me the figures are more like 38.000 vs. 380.000, but yeah, you’ve got a valid point there.
[edit: typo]
14.Apr.2008 7.30am
Probably has a lot to do with people’s typo’s and not a google error.
14.Apr.2008 8.45am
What kind of idiot misspells font?
14.Apr.2008 9.09am
Perhaps Google assigns less “weight” to a term when it thinks it is misspelled. Searching “safari font” brings back 600K results. In this case, it’s actually finding lots of cases where the word is misspelled within the indexed pages. That somehow complicates the matter.
14.Apr.2008 9.54am
If you put the terms in quotes, you will get the same results as David did (except now there are two results returned — this one and the German one).
14.Apr.2008 10.18am
But if you put “Safari font embeding” in quotes, you get only one result: this page.
It seems David was comparing the correct spelling in quotes to the incorrect spelling without quotes. Not so strange things looked odd, then.
Searching for both strings without quotes gives me 310,000 results for the correct spelling, and only 1,360 results for the incorrect spelling, which seems more reasonable.
15.Apr.2008 1.20am
Oisín, my quoted results were without quotes as well... Well, Google does some very weird stuff, I guess also your personal settings (as e.g. preferred language setting in your browser) will have an influence on the result as well.