[howeyc]

"Mr. Babage if I were to feed wrong inputs to that calculation machine will it still produce correct outputs?"

[untog]

...but Google does do that.

[comex]

That would be more analogous to Google correcting input for perceived spelling errors. Putting in garbage as a query isn't wrong, it has a well-defined answer for the vast majority of garbage.

[vacri]

And yet the commentor is claiming that the other tool is able to produce useful output from those inputs.

[enneff]

"correct" is not equivalent to "helpful"

[KiwiCoder]

The better part of this quote is the sentiment that follows;

I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.

[streetnigga]

"Look at this! If I mash gibberish into a search engine it returns the same."