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Google Auto-Correct is killing my site

5 pointsby chintan39about 11 years ago
I run a site https:&#x2F;&#x2F;birthde.com. But when you google the &quot;Birthde&quot;(https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;#q=birthde) it Auto-Correct changes it to &quot;Birthday&quot;. And I dont get any traffic in.<p>Do I have to change to a better domain name? or Should the google change something for such senario?

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chintan39about 11 years ago
I just checked it on DuckDuckGo,Yahoo,Bing <a href="https://duckduckgo.com/?q=birthde" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;duckduckgo.com&#x2F;?q=birthde</a><p><a href="https://in.search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=A0SO82JB9G1TPxoAHL.7HAx.?p=birthde&amp;fr2=sb-top&amp;fr=yfp-t-704&amp;vm=r" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;in.search.yahoo.com&#x2F;search;_ylt=A0SO82JB9G1TPxoAHL.7...</a><p><a href="https://www.bing.com/search?q=birthde&amp;qs=n&amp;form=QBLH&amp;filt=all&amp;pq=birthde&amp;sc=8-7&amp;sp=-1&amp;sk=&amp;cvid=cfa7a4472b60426ba878561fdc585d5f" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bing.com&#x2F;search?q=birthde&amp;qs=n&amp;form=QBLH&amp;filt=al...</a><p>And they all shows correct results.
hashtagabout 11 years ago
No comments on the Google situation but a few on the idea itself...<p>1. Facebook reminds me of people&#x27;s birthday already via its site as well as email reminders.<p>2. Google Calendar allows alerts of said events (so does iCal). This also integrates with my Google Contacts already.<p>3. Integrated apps like EasilyDo and many others also display these reminders if needed I believe.<p>I&#x27;m not sure I understand the value proposition of paying for something like this, particularly if I have to manually punch all those birthdays in when there are so many free solutions all over the place.
pdappollonioabout 11 years ago
How much time ago you uploaded your site? Commonly, a few months after a site is launched, Google understands that&#x27;s essentially a new word.
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cr3ativeabout 11 years ago
How many people do you think are searching specifically for your site&#x27;s name who wouldn&#x27;t think to put the &quot;.com&quot; on it? It might be fewer than you think.<p>You won&#x27;t automatically rank highly for &quot;birthday reminders&quot; as it&#x27;s a highly contested keyword.<p>As an aside: What does your product offer which I can&#x27;t achieve with Google Calendar?
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mostlystaticabout 11 years ago
You&#x27;ll probably need a different domain name if you want to rank for the name of your product.<p>Google has little reason to change anything - chances are most people who type in &#x27;birthde&#x27; are looking for &#x27;birthday&#x27;.
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DanBCabout 11 years ago
I guess that as people search for [birthde] and click the &quot;Did you mean &#x27;birthde&#x27;?&quot; link then Google will learn that people typing [birthde] are not misstyping [birthday].<p>Seems frustrating though.
staunchabout 11 years ago
Change your apps name. Not that big of a deal. Steve.