“Web Content Management System fr Window”: Search Engine Typos

Oops! I meant â'œweb content management system for windows.â' Do search engines understand consumer search engine typos? Typing something so close to what you are looking for, like typing â'œweb content management system fr windowâ' instead of â'œweb content management system for windowsâ' may not seem like a big deal, but search engine bloopers alter consumer searches more than we know.

The phrase used in the title, â'œweb content management system fr windowâ' is a real-life example of a common search engine typo. In fact, within that phrase, the â'œoâ' and the â'œsâ' are missed so often that search engines like Google, Yahoo, and MSN have recorded the phrase â'œweb content management system fr windowâ' as searched about 481 times on a monthly average.

You might ask how this affects your search engine searches. Well, let us use the same phrase for an example. Typing the phrase you are looking for, â'œweb content management system for windows,â' yields about 29.6 million indexed pages in Google, 14.7 million in Yahoo, and 2.3 million in MSN. However, the typo â'œweb content management system fr window,â' only slightly different from what you really meant to type, yields drastically different results: 654 thousand indexed pages in Google, 131 thousand in Yahoo, and 56.5 thousand in MSN.

That doesnâ''t seem so bad. Who doesnâ''t want to narrow down the search? The problem is that the number of indexed pages is not the only difference with search engine typos; the poor search engines are trying to find the most relevant pages they can to the misspelled search, but it may not find what you need. On the one hand, you have tens of millions of relevant pages with a correct search; on the other hand, you have hundreds of thousands of semi-relevant pages. Which would you rather have?

Search engine typos are very common, but they do alter the relevance of your results.

Joe Miller is an author of informational articles and online advertisements on business, technology, and health. 'Web content management system fr window' is actually 'web content management system for windows'.

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