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THE SHOT — Sometimes Google’s auto-correct feature misses the mark. (Thanks, Travon!)

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By: editor editor
On: Dec 10, 2009
Tagged: Google, Homosexuality, Reparative Therapy, the shot

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No. 1 · glennmcgahee
This is exactly what Obama’s folks did with Google. Its time for a new search engine when google can be manipulated so easily. Remember when Jeff from Flipping Out realized his business partner was manipulating google searches to direct inquiries for Jeff to Ryan’s design office? It just takes the money.

Dec 10, 2009 at 11:59 am · @Reply · Flag
No. 2 · tazz602 · Member · 115 comments
Try spelling CAN’T correctly and you don’t get the suggestion. Duh!

Dec 10, 2009 at 12:37 pm · @Reply · Flag
No. 3 · Chrispey
Thank you TAZZ602. Let’s try not jumping to conclusions. It took me 2 seconds to debunk this post and see that it was, in fact, grammatically cause…

Dec 10, 2009 at 12:57 pm · @Reply · Flag
No. 4 · Dave
Exactly as Tazz602 and Chrispey say. If you ignore the apostrophe, you’re misspelling “can’t”. At that point, Google has to guess one way or the other whether you left out the apostrophe or added a ‘t’. Either way, it’s going to be wrong a significant portion of the time.

Logically, it probably makes more sense to go with “can”, since that covers not only one of the two contradictory statements, but also the question “can homosexuality be cured?” Since most people search to get answers to questions, that’s probably more important anyway.

This is hands down the most ridiculous panic post on Queerty in a long time, and that’s saying something.

Dec 10, 2009 at 2:07 pm · @Reply · Flag
No. 5 · Schteve
…you’re missing the mark if you think this post was for anything other than a laugh.

That said, it doesn’t correct any misspellings of “cant” I include. :( I want to use it to form all sorts of hilarious search results for people I know.

Dec 10, 2009 at 4:06 pm · @Reply · Flag
No. 6 · blackjack44
are you guys serious? How could you, like SCHTEVE said, not see this as anything more than something to laugh at?? I swear gays can be some of the most uptight people in the world. No need to disect googles formulation strategy, just fucking laugh for a minute. Loosen ur assholes and take a break for crying out loud.

Dec 10, 2009 at 4:13 pm · @Reply · Flag
No. 7 · Rick Heintz
I have been more worried by what happens when you just type in “Homosexuality” , which is what most parents would do as soon as their teenager come out to them, and you get this is the top 3 searches! http://www.conservapedia.com/Homosexuality

Uhhhhh… WTF!

Dec 10, 2009 at 4:20 pm · @Reply · Flag
No. 8 · B
In No. 7 · Rick Heintz wrote, “I have been more worried by what happens when you just type in “Homosexuality” , which is what most parents would do as soon as their teenager come out to them, and you get this is the top 3 searches! [link deleted] Uhhhhh… WTF!”

Google’s search algorithm looks at the number of links going to a page (with a weighting based on the number of links going to the page where a link was found). Your comment just added another link. and bumped the conservapedia page up a notch.

Dec 10, 2009 at 5:54 pm · @Reply · Flag
No. 9 · Jesse
You spelled “can’t” wrong.
If you spell it correctly then it doesn’t do this.
You can’t just jump to conclusions Without first fact checking your own spelling

Dec 10, 2009 at 7:28 pm · @Reply · Flag