Google's Spelling Check

Did you mean? - Now does apostrophes

[IanTurner]

I just did a search for a term which is usually apostrophed and Google pulled up the fact that I hadn't included the apostrophe.

I haven't seen this happen before - is it new?

[hanewich]

It's been around for a while. Frankly, sometimes it's too smart for its own good. I find it annoying on occasion.

[nancyb]

especially when the spelling G suggests is incorrect! That happens quite often for some of the terms in my industry. I've written them with the correct spellings, but to no avail, so far.

They even suggest a different spelling for my name! Granted it's my last name and it's also a common first name, but ... there are two accepted spellings for the first name. Oh, well :)

<added> just checked to be sure and they no longer suggest a different spelling for my name, must have fixed it with this update. Yeah - esp. since it's also my domain and searches for my domain used to suggest a diff spelling</added>

[IanTurner]

I agree with the irritating bit, it always corrects UK spelling to US, even on Google.co.uk UK sites only!

[GoogleGuy]

Feel free to email us with any bad corrections. We like input to improve all our algorithms, not just the spam checking ones. :)

[hanewich]

I should have elaborated...

The spell check is nice. I do a lot of manual reporting for my clients, which means typing in each and every one of the keyword phrases for each client. Being able to click on the "did you mean.." link saves a lot of time as opposed to re-typing the search string.