Date: 2007nov21
Subject: Google as spellchecker
When you don't know how to spell a word you can look it up in
an (online) dictionary or you can look up the possible spellings
in a search engine. For example:
"websight"
http://www.google.com/search?q=websight
Gets 514 thousand hits
vs.
"website"
http://www.google.com/search?q=website
Gets 831 million hits
Looks like the winner.
Of course, this assumes that most people spell things correctly.
The site http://www.googlefight.com automates this.
(Arg, I have to say that googlefight is yet another site I thought of
but then figured: nobody would want that.)
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