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Not only that, Google also does keyboard-layout mapping if you forgot to switch your keyboard layout before searching.

For example, if I want to search in Hebrew for "חיפוש בעברית" but accidentally typed in English and typed "jhpua gchcr," (same keys as the Hebrew chars) - I'll still get the results I was looking for [1].

[1] - https://www.google.com/search?q=jhpua%20cgcrh,



If I remember correctly from one talk, it does this by remembering how users correct themselves.


In the case of Hebrew, I doubt they go to such lengths. ןא ןד הקרט קשדט אם בםמהקרא דןמבק פרקאאט צוביקהקרטםמק ודקד איק דשצק לקטנםשרגץ

(Google the hebrew text to decode to English. :-) )




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