Actors, not Nazis?

There are many places on the interwebs where you can find lists of autocorrect fails—you know, when the helpful software changes a word you’re actually typing for something it thinks you really meant. Without consulting you.

You’re most likely to experience the annoyance when you’re on a mobile device and not really looking at what you’re keying in on your magic glass surface, so you hit send before you realize you’ve just said Granny is a homosexual (instead of coming home from the hospital).

You really have to wonder what the product teams that built the software were thinking.

(Of course, it just occurred to me that it’s entirely possible if not probable that the development teams, from product manager to QA, are located in countries where English is not their first language.)

Anyway, here’s my latest: I was looking up Goebbels on my Kindle. For some reason, the Silk browser that’s native to Kindle keeps pushing me to use Bing instead of Google, so as it happens I was Binging for the Nazi propaganda minister.

But Bing kept replacing Goebbels with Fiennes. I mean—repeatedly. As in, again and again, until I finally kludged up Google and got my answer.

Now I am just having a hard time understanding why Bing does not recognize Goebbels, but it thinks Fiennes is just, you know, fine.

Is it a Microsoft thing?