Tuesday, April 26, 2005

Spelling

I was trying out the new Microsoft search engine and I think it is a good alternative to google and yahoo. I use them all, even Ask Jeeves, cause they all come up with different links for any search phrase. Now being as self interested as anyone I typed adaven into Ms search and was surprised to fine this blog the second entry after a real estate outfit. I have tried this with yahoo and google and found it on the n*the page maybe. What does this say about Ms search? Maybe it's engine crawls more blogs than the others? Maybe it is less commercial in it's search criteria? I don't know but it is interesting to consider how there search sites really work. And really, who would actually type a word like adaven into a search engine.
Oh, I was going to write about spelling. My mother made me learn multiplication tables and later to touch type (kinda), but she gave up in making me learn to spell well. So I consider the spell checker to be the greatest invention since the zipper.
Well, clicking on the ms search link to this blog I looked back to some of the previous posts and noticed a few errors in spelling and grammar. I generally spell check these posts with the blogger spell checker so I'm going to say perfection costs a lot more than free. As for grammar, it is a blog, and I can use the language however I want.
Now I am going to run the spell checker on this post and see what it reports.

Ok it found six spelling errors in common words. Interestingly it choked on blog and blogger?


A rerun found two more errors. You may find more but the point is. Previous posts may contain spelling errors, so may future posts, don't worry , your brain will figure it out.

Adaven

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