Is Google Trying To Be More Helpful With Its ‘Spell Checker’ ?
Google Search’s ‘Spell Checker’, the handy feature might have helped you many times to get over searches with ‘typo’ errors. This is the feature that helps us everytime when some spelling errors occur in our typing, with its suggestion like, “Did you mean ‘relevant word’?”
Obviously, the feature has put a dent in the revenue of all those SEOs who had been making money on people who make some common spelling errors while Googling, however, it was really a help for most common people who made use of the feature to suggest correct and relevant terms.
But, recently the feature has started generating, like ‘non existant’ suggestions. According to Google’s description, suggested phrase is going to be the ‘more commonly used spelling’. It is quite understandable, because on the Internet often correct spelling has absolutely nothing to do with what people are looking for. For instance: ‘flickr’ and ‘pwned’, that don’t even exist. However, the suggested word/phrase should at least exist.
But now, if you Google a term that doesn’t exist, and the same feature churning out alternative words that also don’t exist seems quite strange! For example, you type a word that doesn’t exist, then the ‘Spell Checker’ would reply, “Did you mean’ another non-existant term’?, which is not understandable. One thing is clear that Google wants to look as helpful as possible, but suggesting non-existant words doesn’t make the right sense.
