All for the good of man ..?

I just out of curiosity took advantage of the Zen search for Yandex. The request fell pretty curious: "kjlrf FVEH". Yandex responded to this request as follows: “The request was corrected for the AMUR boat, because nothing was found for kjlrf FVEH.”

At first glance, everything is in order, smart Yandex taxis and all that. But if you think a little about what is happening, then everything is not so obvious.

Let us recall another example of applying a similar approach: browsers that, without the slightest objection, process incorrect HTML, trying to guess what the layout designer wanted to say when writing this HTML curve, silently correct its errors and show the result in the best possible way. We all feel the consequences of this approach, thanks to Gd now it is possible to disable this mode (but this in no way corrected millions of crookedly written websites, browser developers, search engines and other applications that need to parse web sites will understand me better all).

Show principle: Create a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it.

The dark side of this phenomenon is that if a fool can already use this system, then he has no incentive to become smarter. If we were in the school did not torture difficult puzzles, we would now, most likely, worked at the machine at the plant, and not idle on a habr. :) Thus, it turns out that systems that even a fool can use help increase the number of fools.
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In principle, from the point of view of the power / money of the haves - this is not so bad. It is much easier to manage a herd of sheep , and it’s also easier to wash their brains with advertising.

But we are with you techies. We have other needs — for example, it’s usually more pleasant for us to talk to a smart person than to sell something to an idiot. So maybe we should not admire how smart Yandex is, how he wipes our snot and corrects our mistakes? Maybe from a moral point of view, the development of systems for fools is not much different from the development of systems for sending spam? By the way, it is believed that much less harm from spam ...

PS I do not have anything specifically against Yandex, I wrote about any such systems, of which there are many, and against which Yandex doesn’t stand out in the slightest.