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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2. The heartbreaking hilarity of
@GooglePoetics: http://www.googlepoetics.com/ pic.twitter.com/8nT6uotqj1
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3. “Bill Vaginal wasn’t the only complainant: As Thorpe recalls, Goldman Sachs was mad that Word was always turning it into Goddamn Sachs.” The Fasinatng... Fascinating History of Autocorrect:https://www.wired.com/2014/07/history-of-autocorrect/ …
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4. A 2011 interview with
@jonwiley on being a Google Autocompleter. “On a good day, I average 34,000 words per minute. And I go through a new keyboard every eight days.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blB_X38YSxQ …2 replies 0 retweets 9 likesShow this thread -
One of my favorite Google April Fool's videos.
It's kinda sad how many people think it's real.
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I like it, too. (Plus it stands out as tech companies’ April’s Fools aren’t usually funny at all, although that seems to not actually often be their purpose.)
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