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Google is not a dictionary

And gets offended when it’s treated as such.

Let’s face it, google is such a mighty search engine. Can you imagine the spiders going around the world, the results gathered and indexed. And every time you make a search those data are confronted and pages of results are returned. Well, maybe you don’t, but here in the office, when we want to find the correct way to spell a word we just look it in google. Along side with its more probable variations.

Much was my surprise when looking for perturbed
google gave me as third fourth and fifth hit:


See results for: dictionary

Dictionary.com
Free online dictionary search, translator, word of the day, crossword puzzles
and word games, and vocabulary learning resources for many languages.
dictionary.reference.com/

Merriam-Webster Online
Merriam-Webster provides a free online dictionary, thesaurus, audio pronunciations,
Word of the Day, word games, and other English language resources.
www.m-w.com/

OneLook Dictionary Search
Type in a word and search many dictionaries at once. Also has a reverse dictionary.
www.onelook.com/


Which sounded pretty much like saying: I am not a bloody dictionary. I hope you do realise that you are using the most powerful engine in the world to find how to spell.

I am sorry, I won’t do it again ;) .

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