# Ever click the suggested link in a search
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-click-the-suggested-link-in-a-search/717406
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [April 11, 2015, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-click-the-suggested-link-in-a-search/717406 "2015-04-11T04:14:51Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@Peter\_Doubt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Doubt)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2015, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-click-the-suggested-link-in-a-search/717406/1 "2015-04-11T04:14:51Z")
Just because it corrected your spelling?
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### Author:  [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2015, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-click-the-suggested-link-in-a-search/717406/2 "2015-04-11T04:17:59Z")
Honestly, almost always. I figure it’ll get me more hits even though Google is usually basing the results on the corrected spelling anyways.
OTOH, sometimes I click on the link that says ‘you spelled it wrong, do you want to search based on the wrong spelling, moron’. To which I say ‘umm, yeah, that’s why I spelled it that way’ click.
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### Author:  [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_is_the_new_Analog)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2015, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-click-the-suggested-link-in-a-search/717406/3 "2015-04-12T02:35:00Z")
I second what **Joey P** said.
All in favor?
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### Author:  [@Don\_t\_Panic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_Panic)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2015, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-click-the-suggested-link-in-a-search/717406/4 "2015-04-12T02:49:21Z")
> [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](#):
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> All in favor?
Aye.
Also, as ashamed as I am to admit it, I mostly don’t even bother spelling things correctly when searching Google anymore. I just spew out some random letters into the search field, and Google still always seems to know what I was thinking of.
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### Author:  [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_is_the_new_Analog)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2015, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-click-the-suggested-link-in-a-search/717406/5 "2015-04-12T13:35:09Z")
I mostly try to spell things correctly, but I don’t bother correcting typos in my searches.
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### Author:  [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2015, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-click-the-suggested-link-in-a-search/717406/6 "2015-04-12T14:29:10Z")
> [@Martian Bigfoot](#):
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> Aye.
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> Also, as ashamed as I am to admit it, I mostly don’t even bother spelling things correctly when searching Google anymore. I just spew out some random letters into the search field, and Google still always seems to know what I was thinking of.
I find it funny when someone is watching over my shoulder. “That’s not how you spell any of those words”, “yeah, google will figure it out”.
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### Author:  [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2015, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-click-the-suggested-link-in-a-search/717406/7 "2015-04-12T14:32:39Z")
> [@Martian Bigfoot](#):
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> …, as ashamed as I am to admit it, I mostly don’t even bother spelling things correctly when searching Google anymore. I just spew out some random letters into the search field, and Google still always seems to know what I was thinking of.
This is me, although I feel no shame about it. (I am a good speller, but have lazy clunky fingers.)
OTOH, occasionally I do spell carefully into the Google box knowing in advance that I will have to override the suggested respelling.
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### Author:  [@Don\_t\_Panic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_Panic)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2015, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-click-the-suggested-link-in-a-search/717406/8 "2015-04-12T14:57:23Z")
> [@septimus](#):
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> This is me, although I feel no shame about it. (I am a good speller, but have lazy clunky fingers.)
I guess that I’m ashamed because I know that it just contributes to my general laziness. And I find myself wanting similar shortcuts in other places. Like on this board:
[Garbled mess.]
_Did you mean: [Cogent, eloquent argument]?_
Yeah, that would be so sweet to have sometimes.