Search engine still needs work on guessing. When searching for the well-known American politician Michele Bachmann, I typed "nichele bachmann" and got:
<quote>Did you mean: nichols bachman</quote>
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I don't think anybody's claiming that this feature is very useful at the moment... it's perfectly happy to suggest things that don't even exist on the wiki, probably frustrating users more than anything. It does have its moments of sublime brilliance, though...
I prefer . For me, "did you mean" is usually useful. For the example friendly elf made, perhaps it would be useful to take the top 5 scored results and the pick the one with lower w:Levenshtein distance from the typed query.
And what about this?
