Google search in non-English languages

[StupidScript]

Over the weekend I was doing some research and I was a little surprised by something.

When searching for any English phrase, Google seems to pull organic results that are similar to the phrase, regardless of whether the phrase had misspellings in it or not.

However when searching for a French phrase, it seems like everything needs to be exactly correct in order for Google to find it.

For example:
"le matins de la mauricie" is incorrect, and pulls no organic results.
"les matins de la mauricie" is correct, and pulls about 80 organic results.

I'm gonna guess that English phrase searches are passed through a "fix-em-up" routine that expands the search to include "near" hits, where French phrase searches do not pass through that same routine.

Thoughts? How might this impact on SEO?

[WillL]

people spam there sites with stuff in other languages too.

[mazter]

Not sure what that phrase means but AFAIK 'le' is similar to 'the' in english. Google does correction and finds organic results but it needs time for that. One of my website is also non-english, and keywords in that website was not shown as correction for couple of month. After page-rank, I started getting correction for non-english words.

[StupidScript]

It seems like that's the general idea. "Le" and "Les" are both "The", with one for singular nouns and the next for plural nouns. The phrase means "The Mornings of Mauricie" (an area of Quebec, Canada). When I looked for "Le Matins" instead of the correct "Les Matins", I agree with you that a correction was not made, so an extension of my search could not be performed.

We clearly need more people searching Google in French!!