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Google Fixing Search Typos With URLs

Google Operating System discovered that Google is now attempting to fix search typos of URLs.

For example, a search on https://searchengineland.com/googles.php returns:

No results found for https://searchengineland.com/googles.php.

However, there are results from websites with similar addresses


Here is a screen capture:

Google Fixing Typos

As you can see, I added an “S” to google.php at the end of the Search Engine Land URL.

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About the author

Barry Schwartz
Barry Schwartz is a technologist and a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land and a member of the programming team for SMX events. He owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics.

In 2019, Barry was awarded the Outstanding Community Services Award from Search Engine Land, in 2018 he was awarded the US Search Awards the "US Search Personality Of The Year," you can learn more over here and in 2023 he was listed as a top 50 most influential PPCer by Marketing O'Clock.

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