[Out_of_Characte]

Its supposed to me altitude right? not attitude which is a (emotional) disposition towards something. a google search reveils no alternative meaning yet its written wrong 17 times.

[pjc50]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attitude_control

> a google search reveils no alternative meaning

You could file this under "yet another deterioration of google effectiveness by personalisation of search results", except it's not even true? I put "attitude" in and it gave me a dictionary expand-o-box with "3. the orientation of an aircraft or spacecraft, relative to the direction of travel."

[simsla]

Could still be due to search personalisation.

I get programming results even for non programming terms. I am pretty confident that's not the case for my mom.

It stands to reason that people's search results could be wholly uninformative if Google thinks the subject matter is unlike what you usually read.

[ClumsyPilot]

The other day I was looking for official website of Moldovan government to find out their covid rules.It took me an hour to find, it was below UK and US gov pages about Moldova and below random media articles and blogposts.

There are also many times when you search an official UK government service, like applying for a driving lisence or filing taxes, and the first page is just full of scams. This has been goung on for years, they should pin the official resources to the top for cases like this.

[Spare_account]

I see you've had some other answers about the meaning of 'attitude' in this context, so I thought I would address the other part of your comment:

>a google search reveils no alternative meaning

A Google query that worked well for me to learn more about this was 'attitude orbit'. Including another word from the knowledge area (borrowed from the article title) helped Google understand the context I was searching within:

https://www.google.com/search?q=attitude+orbit

[danielbarla]

From [1] attitude, in the context of spacecraft, means:

> Attitude is part of the description of how an object is placed in the space it occupies. Attitude and position fully describe how an object is placed in space.

So, basically, its relative orientation and rotation.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attitude_control

[icebadger]

From Merriam-Webster Dictionary [0]:

>5 : the position of a craft (such as an aircraft or spacecraft) determined by the relationship between its axes and a reference datum (such as the horizon or a particular star)

[0] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/attitude

[nkoren]

Googling tip: if what you're looking for is the definition of a word, try typing:

  define:attitude

You'll see that the third definition which comes up is: "the orientation of an aircraft or spacecraft, relative to the direction of travel."