I remember like seven years ago my android keyboard's autocorrect was completely fine? Not only would it seem to remember my common finger slip-induced typos and correct them on sight, but it could also autocorrect typos with numbers in them, ie recognizing "3" as a missed "e", etc

But nowadays my autocorrect fucking sucks rank ass? It's awful at guessing the correction for typos as it looks like (to me) it only uses the first letter as the basis for autocorrect, and if I mistyped the first letter then I'm shit out of luck for autocorrect picking up, like there's absolutely no way it could possibly guess what I mean when I say "I want vurgers for dinner"

But somehow it's gotten even WORSE than just bad at its job lately? I've had regular instances of the autocorrect changing a correctly spelled and grammatically correct word to something completely different. Just yesterday it autocorrected the word 'with' in the middle of a sentence to 'WI', as in the acronym for Wisconsin.

what is the point of making your basic functionality shittier? to sell premium keyboard apps? jesus christ

      • laziestflagellant [they/them]
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        2 years ago

        love 2 look up questions about video game mechanics and get an entire page of algorithmically written guides with incorrect information when I just want to know where the fuck a certain fish spawns or whatever

        • ssjmarx [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          The golden age of game guides was GameFAQs. Just give me a big ctrl+f-able text document, PLEASE!

      • star_wraith [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        I think Google hasn't figured out how to defeat search engine optimization. They may not even care to. But people have figured out ways to game the system. IIRC that's the reason people write out long ass journal entries before just giving you the recipe - it's all meant to max out SEO points.

      • Quimby [any, any]
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        2 years ago

        shit. it's on the tip of my tongue, but there was this really good example recently where google took two unrelated articles and ended up with something like "Michael Jordan is the President of Israel" or something like that.