Wednesday, November 14, 2012

User action or Auto generated response

I'm sure many of us typed in Google searches and misspelled words.  Google results will suggest corrected spelling or allow you to do the search with the “unique” spelling.  Thus, I wanted to see if there is a difference in the request and see if the user requested word search can be linked to a user initiated, but completed based on auto generated Google suggestion.  Each auto generated request seems to request based on the index value of the generated requests, starting with 1 ( most likely ) to distinguish between multiple spelling options.  I also tried Bing to see the difference in the request format.
Google
Firefox
Correct spelling request
Misspelled request
Suggested options auto generated by Google
Showing results for digital forensics
Search instead for digital forensico
Clicking on the suggested correction created a spell=1 request
“en-US:official&spell=1&q=digital+forensics”.
Clicking on the suggested “bad” spelling, but auto generated suggestion created a nfpr=1 request
 “en-US:official&nfpr=1&q=digital+forensico”
IE
IE was behaving the same in its requests as firefox.
Showing results fordigital forensics
Search instead for digital forensico
Clicking on the suggested correction created a spell=1 request
Clicking on the suggested “bad” spelling, but auto generated suggestion created a nfpr=1 request
Bing
Bing requests were different from Google, but also consistent between browsers. 
IE
Correct spelling request
Misspelled request
Including results for digital forensics.
Do you want results only for digital forensico?
Clicking on the suggested correction created a FORM=AWRE request
Clicking on the suggested “bad” spelling, but auto generated suggestion created a FORM=RCRE request
Firefox
Including results for digital forensics.
Do you want results only for digital forensico?

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