A grab bag of fun links about auto-suggest/auto-complete/spell check/predictive text. Send me more! 1. “President Abraham Lincoln was buttbuttinated by an armed buttailant after a life devoted to the reform of the US consbreastution.”http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/2667634/The-Clbuttic-Mistake-When-obscenity-filters-go-wrong.html …
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6. Words censored on various forums because of uncouth words hiding within: assassin cockpit canal screwdriver Saturday hearse basement farther skyscraper grapefruit manuscript William Shatner Bumblebee Riddick cluster Lightwater Town circumvent suspicious reputation Japan
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(Otherwise known as “S cunt orphe problem”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem …)
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7. Google’s “did you mean” campaign in 2010. (I feel there must be a million jokes funnier than the ones they chose?)pic.twitter.com/qe6NNtcDGF
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8. Must be one of the earlier “Google’s algorithms reflect the sexist biases of its creators/society” articles, from 2009: https://www.salon.com/2009/10/23/google_fail/ … /cc
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9. Even more funny since I was the designer on this very feature at Google.pic.twitter.com/yiR02kIodj
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10. A few years ago, Mashable made animations for weird, unexpected Google suggestions. http://mashable.com/2014/07/13/google-autocomplete-funny-illustrations/ …pic.twitter.com/MQkr6Zd3Nf
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11. Google Feud! A Family Feud-like game (for one) where you guess Google suggestions: http://www.googlefeud.com/ (It’s really hard, at least for me.)
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12. “Google, democracy and the truth about internet search” Just a year ago, a search for “are women” autocompleted to “are women evil?” and immediately showed a result saying “Every woman has some degree of prostitute in her.” https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/dec/04/google-democracy-truth-internet-search-facebook …
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13. Best dramatization of “Cupertino effect” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cupertino_effect …) I’ve seen:https://twitter.com/karanbirtinna/status/921053635554902017 …
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15. “We used predictive keyboards trained on all seven books to ghostwrite this spellbinding new Harry Potter chapter.” https://twitter.com/botnikstudios/status/940627812259696643 …
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(Not too into Harry Potter? How about Arrested Development?)https://twitter.com/botnikstudios/status/943542693401120772 …
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16. A nice interview with the creator of Botnik:https://www.dailydot.com/unclick/jamie-brew-predictive-text-clickhole-coding-comedy/ …
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17. Today’s word: cacography, a “deliberate comic misspelling, a type of humour similar to malapropism.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cacography E.g. teh awesome, hueg like Xbox, and so on?
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18. The very first, 1993 edition of AutoCorrect in Microsoft Word only did nine things: (r) » ® adn » and don;t » don’t i » I incl » include occurence » occurrence recieve » receive seperate » separate teh » thepic.twitter.com/0a0Fr7kdWZ
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(By next time in Word 95, the AutoCorrect list was much more vast, including support for the most haggard-looking smileys in human history.)pic.twitter.com/aGJqKRXX8q
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(And, did you know that modern Word has extra autocomplete FOR NERDS? I didn’t!)pic.twitter.com/BD6pWIoeqZ
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(Funnily enough, I just watched my brain autocompleting “autocorrect” to “autocomplete.”)
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19. Speaking of Word 95, this is when the (in)famous red underline appeared for the first time. In marketing Microsoft momentarily branded it as “Spell It,” but on day one the UI already simply said “Click the right mouse button on the red wavy underlined words.”pic.twitter.com/9K1gYJHZTd
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21. Google's in news for blacklistting “gun” in Shopping so sloppily it breaks searches for “guns n roses,” “shogun warriors,” “glue guns,” “burgundy wine,” and so on.http://www.businessinsider.com/google-shopping-bans-gun-searches-water-guns-guns-n-roses-2018-2 …
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22. Just wanted to share this for posterity… the first, original Word 6.0 AutoCorrect dialog box with the glorious *nine* entries, in 100% high fidelity. (I only saw it in a scan of a book before, so I installed Windows and Word in an emulator to get this.)pic.twitter.com/nEkj2uT2gQ
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23. We might never learn this lesson / This might never cease to be hilarious:https://twitter.com/badmanbegins/status/956630644838359041 …
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26. “Clearly this wasn’t implemented properly and we have disabled this feature for now.”https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/facebook-auto-reply-suggestions-live-videos …
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27. Deep inside my public library, I found this oldie, but goldie from 1994.pic.twitter.com/s2P0sOYscR
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