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THE SEARCH ENGINE THAT RECOGNIZES DRUNKEN TYPING

KASPEN/JUNG von MATT, Prague / BUDWEISER BUDVAR / 2013

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Execution

We managed to get www.centrum.cz, the 3rd largest search engine in the CR, to reprogram their mistaken suggestions. When the site did not recognize what people typed, its search suggestion gave them a new suggestion instead: 'Keyboard shaking? Drink Budvar non alcohol next time.' The message was made to look like a real suggestion with no branding, so it did not appear as an advertisement. And it appeared anytime people made a mistake, misspelled or messed up their search. Literally, there were millions of variations. In one month, the message appeared 782,410 times.

Outcome

One of the aims of the project was to do something innovative that would grab people's attention (maybe not in such a high-tech way that Google would do).

The goal was achieved. Let's look at comments: Sense of humor and the non-traditional solution using the otherwise ordinary and boring internet functionality were strongly appreciated. Actually, it is advertising based on typos made while searching the web. A great idea, don't you think?

This really amused us: What happens when you open the Centrum.cz search engine after coming home from a Christmas party...

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