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lucy02
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lucy02 asked in Yahoo ProductsYahoo Search · 6 years ago

why does yahoo give me search results that include different spellings?

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  • 6 years ago

    Hi there,

    Search suggestions appear automatically as you type a Yahoo Search--including to suggestions that appear when your name is entered into Yahoo Search. They basically give you related words for what you type into the search field or words you may have typed in incorrectly.

    Hope that helps. Thanks

  • Anonymous
    6 years ago

    The default assumption is that you may have spelled what you were looking for incorrectly...

    (After all, you ARE "looking it up" so obviously there's SOMETHING about it that you already know you don't know!)

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