Did You Know - Something light for a Change

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Looking on the lighter bright side, just for a change, for a moment

Trumping Webster's

Is Google becoming the dictionary of choice for Web users?
Regular users of Google are familiar with its "Did you mean?" feature. Google's software checks your query to see if you are using the most common version of a word's spelling. If you'll generate better search results with an alternative spelling, it will ask, "Did you mean: (more common spelling)?" Yes, I meant focaccia, not foccacia.
SpellWeb (spellweb.com) makes it easy to compare two spellings of a word (or a phrase) on Google. Although editors and linguists may be horrified by the site's exhortation to "Let the Web decide!" correct spelling, the site can be used to easily demonstrate how widespread poor spelling and usage have become.
For example, 2.2 million Web references to the millennium spell it correctly, yet a whopping 665,000 use the misspelling "millenium." The situation is dire for some phrases. On the Web, "here here" outpolls the correct "hear hear" 153,000 to 42,000. Steve Nelson, executive vice president of Clear Ink, the Web design firm that created SpellWeb, said an increasing number of site visitors were using SpellWeb like a coin toss to help them make decisions. "It's like a Magic 8 Ball," he said. "I've seen people compare two phrases like 'buy custom golf clubs' and 'buy off-the-shelf golf clubs' to see which way the Web prefers."

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Courtesy:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/15/technology/circuits/15diar.html?pagewanted=all
 

[Queen Bee]

Haha, that is pretty amusing Thanks for sharing.

[thevirus]

I really find it interesting how we all depend on the internet for so much now. Including banking, if they were hacked they would be in trouble