Turn off auto-correct in search fields

Examples from yesterday:

I wanted to learn more about Hamid Shirvani, the dean at CSU Stanislaus involved in a flap about Sarah Palin. I ended up at a results page for Hammed Shirvani.

I read about a web service called Nozbe and ended up at the results page for Nozzle

I wanted to find out the differences between Feeddler Pro and free, so Googled the developer's name Liu and ended up at Feedler Lou

Trying to find website "movieline" got me to "movie line"

Attempting to learn more about Holocaust denier jürgen graf got me to jargon graf

website ign turned into gin. Which I at that point I probably needed more, but still.

These seem like fairly routine sorts of searches.

And yes, you can override them -- if you remember to pause AFTER you've typed the word but BEFORE you press return, which is to say it's possible simply by un-learning a lifetime habit to account for a software deficiency. My first choice would be to correct the "correcting" software.

It's the same on the iphone and yet 1. we do less surfing on the iphone, and 2. the whole experience changes once a speedy keyboard is involved.

No, I am saying that the feature, while generally useful, is uniquely not useful in search fields, given how often we search for names and proper nouns. So there should be a setting allowing users to keep the correction feature on for everything except search fields.