On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 2:16 PM, Robert Stojnic rainmansr@gmail.com wrote:
Google is not aware of this either. It works for certain queries like wikipedia (probably because many people misspell it in Cyrillic for fun), but try a more general query (e.g. университз оф оџфорд), and it won't return any results.
He was referring to search terms typed in a wrong keyboard layout, not transliteration, i.e. "гтшмукышешуы ща щчащкв" instead of what you wrote for "universities of oxford". Google doesn't really handle this query either, by the way. But yes - I personally felt the need in such a feature and was thinking of doing it myself. Ideally, this should be made a backend-independent extension that hooks into Special:Search directly.