Question about.....Google （关于谷歌的一个问题）
pulosm
November 05, 2007 at 01:19 AM posted in General DiscussionAm I right about this? When you enter simplified Chinese characters into Google.com, it will only search for that character in its simplified form. For example, if I write 头 will it only search for 头 or will it also produce results that include 頭？ If I am right, I think this is a pretty serious flaw, we should quickly notify Google!
我是否说得对? 用谷歌搜索时，如果你用简体字输入， 谷歌只会搜索那个字的简体形式。比方说， 如果我输入"头"这个字， 搜索结果只会产生"头" 这个字还是会包括"頭"那个字? 如果我说得对呢， 我认为这是个满严重的缺点，应该赶快去通知谷歌吧！
pulosm
November 05, 2007 at 01:29 AM
I've really gone crazy, 你蔡德对????, really??? "You Tsai Virtue correct!," but in my defense, (1) I have lost it because I've been working all day, and (2) why did windows wordprocessing suggest "蔡" as the automatic first choice. 你蔡? Really??? Talk about a glitch.
TaiPan, that's the spirit! It shouldn't be too hard because google translate has traditional->simplified (and vice versa) as one of the possible "translations," so they apparently have the necessarily tools to do it!
TaiPan
November 05, 2007 at 01:24 AM
Pulo, I've booked a flight to San Fran to tell them myself. I won't return until it's corrected!
artkho
November 05, 2007 at 07:15 AMI don't view it as an error but as a nice feature because the simplified search will yield documents written in traditional characters.
I don't live too far from Google. Maybe I can go there and tell them about your concern. ;-)