When you see a document riddled with typos and spelling errors, you may come to think of its author as sloppy or even stupid, but you’ll still be able to understand him. A search engine, on the other hand, could balk at such mistakes. Microsoft is trying to address this issue with two new features for Live Search.
The first is, as you might expect, a sort of spellchecker. Type something that’s not quite right, and AutoSpell will incorporate results for the term it thinks you mean to use.
Say a poor speller wanted to research a “volkswagon,” for example. “Results are included for Volkswagen,” states the engine by way of correction. Yet a particularly obstinate poor speller (or a person who was genuinely interested in the incorrect word) would have the option to “[s]how just the results for volkswagon.” Live Search is doing a decent job of catching up, but it has yet to accomplish anything that would pull users from one engine to the other.
AutoSpell can’t account for every possible mistake, of course. Still, it’s a handy feature to have.
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