On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 2:16 PM, Robert Stojnic <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> Google is not aware of this either. It works for certain queries like
> wikipedia (probably because many people misspell it in Cyrillic for
> fun), but try a more general query (e.g. университз оф оџфорд), and it
> won't return any results.
>

  He was referring to search terms typed in a wrong keyboard layout, not
transliteration, i.e. "гтшмукышешуы ща щчащкв" instead of what you wrote for
"universities of oxford". Google doesn't really handle this query either, by
the way. But yes - I personally felt the need in such a feature and was
thinking of doing it myself. Ideally, this should be made a
backend-independent extension that hooks into Special:Search directly.
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