(crosspost)

[pilfered_words]

(Responding to this post about Google knowing what keyboard you meant to type on)

 Pretty sure that’s exactly what happened. Accidentally typing in Russian does the same thing. Though it’s hard for me to check properly, since I use a translit Russian keyboard, so typing an English word without switching is usually just transliterating it into Russian. Not when it has a ‘th’ or ‘ch’, though. :)

 

And I think it weighs the probability that you meant what you said as opposed to the English version, presumably by comparing the number of searches or results for both. Since there are (apparently) actually people using ‘тво товерс’ (’two towers’), google doesn’t correct that. ‘lord of the rings’, on the other hand, is apparently significantly more popular than ‘лорд оф тхе рингс’, so that’s what google brings me. My guess is that if it’s actually gibberish, and not the half legible result I get, google will be a lot more certain it does need to correct it.

 

So, basically, we’re teaching robots to talk. The robot apocalypse is nigh.