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. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
