Web 2 User based content and spelling

If it all from users in Web2 then it is going to be spelt incoretly isnt it

[stinkfoot]

I have a number of websites that are all based on this web2 thing, or at least I thinkn they are. I get a lot of user feedback and publish it as most of it seems to be unique useful and related information.

Now google was proported to relate the quality of information on a site by looking at something that at the moment is very close to my heart, spellling.

If this new web2 thing is alive and kicking, and we know it is really, then what do we do about spelling? I dont wish to change what is being said in my reviews, in fact I am tied into a contract that says I shuoldnt, but ... does google look at badly edited infomation and penalise it?

An no i didnt spell check this note so it is in fact true web2 :P

[jimbeetle]

Now google was proported to relate the quality of information on a site by looking at something that at the moment is very close to my heart, spellling.

Hmmm, I haven't seen anything on that as yet. But ya' know, as Google quite often returns mispelled alternatives in its "Did you mean" function, I'm not sure if they actually do use it as a signal of quality.

Be that as it may, user-generated content, with all of its mispellings, convoluted word usage, colloquial references to products and services, etc., is very valuable because it represents exactly how users talk about and probably search for that information.

It's great stuff, use it.

[stinkfoot]

I am not so sure about that to be honest.

The way people type and communicate in English, on the internet, is not usually in "good English". The same I am sure could be said for most other languages. This new type of communication although valuable, in my mind, should not really be "promoted" to a level above "correct" English.

I do remember an incident at a school where a student completed an English examination in a "phone text" dialect. She obviously was failed for this.

Should we really be having colloquial, misspelled, badly punctuated English shoved to the forefront of what it is we read on the net? If so what will this mean for the future of the language?

In my heart of hearts, I do think that a language that has a correct and an incorrect form, should have the correct form promoted more vigorously than the latter.

[mattg3]

Should we really be having colloquial, misspelled, badly punctuated English shoved to the forefront of what it is we read on the net? If so what will this mean for the future of the language?

Well Google is a popularity engine and not a quality engine. On the other hand language is an everchanging communication form. I am dead sure in 20 years "you" has been changed to "u" and "hate" to "h8" and so on.