> A quick google search showed a 15x preference toward "advisor" based on the number of results for each.
You're right! I've just tried and found the same. (9xx,000,000 for Or vs 7x,000,000 for Er).
Any Googlers reading? I'm curious about these results.
I enter [advisor] into one Google.co.uk search (I'm signed into chrome if that makes any difference to my 'bubble') and I enter [adviser] into another. Because I'm not using ["advisor"] or ["adviser"] I expect Google to use the words interchangably - the words are alternate spellings of each other.
But it doesn't seem like Google does substitute the words for each other. All my results for adviser only have adviser, and all my hits for advisor only have advisor.
I've criticised Google in the past for substituting words when it's not wanted. But here's an example where I think they're not subbing words that they should!
EDIT: For example, if I type [spectacles cases] Google will return and highlight [glasses cases].
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I saw that as well. A quick google search showed a 15x preference toward "advisor" based on the number of results for each.
> A quick google search showed a 15x preference toward "advisor" based on the number of results for each.
You're right! I've just tried and found the same. (9xx,000,000 for Or vs 7x,000,000 for Er).
Any Googlers reading? I'm curious about these results.
I enter [advisor] into one Google.co.uk search (I'm signed into chrome if that makes any difference to my 'bubble') and I enter [adviser] into another. Because I'm not using ["advisor"] or ["adviser"] I expect Google to use the words interchangably - the words are alternate spellings of each other.
But it doesn't seem like Google does substitute the words for each other. All my results for adviser only have adviser, and all my hits for advisor only have advisor.
I've criticised Google in the past for substituting words when it's not wanted. But here's an example where I think they're not subbing words that they should!
EDIT: For example, if I type [spectacles cases] Google will return and highlight [glasses cases].
Exactly. And the confusion compounds...