Looking for tennants accomodation or tennents accommodation? With Google, no problem!
Apparently 10% of all searches made on Google are mistyped or misspelled, so how do those clever people at Google know what we’re searching for even when our spelling or typing goes badly awry?
Google engineer Noam Shazeer developed and implemented a spelling correction (suggestion) system based on what other users have entered. The system automatically checks whether you are using the most common spelling of each word in your query. Because it is not a dictionary-based spellchecker, the most commonly used spelling of the word could even be the incorrect one. For example, transexual returns 1210k hits versus correctly-spelled transsexual, returning 853k hits!
Regardless of whether it suggests an alternative spelling, Google returns results which match your query if there are any. If none matches your query, Google may offer an alternative spelling, the ever-helpful ‘Did you mean … ……?’ query correction service, search tips, and a link to Google Answers. Whether it’s a typo or a misspelling is irrelevant, Google recognizes these and many other words and allows us to access relevant web pages that also often include incorrect spellings (web designers are not perfect!).
According to TextTrust.com, accommodation is number two in the top ten of commonly misspelled words on the web. Here’s the list:
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Tennents bar
Independant
- Accomodation
- Definately
- Recieve
- Opportunites
- Thier
- Occured
- Infomation
- Offiical
- Acitives
For the Scots amongst us, another tricky keyword is tenant. It must be the influence of that fine institution of the West End of Glasgow, Tennents Bar on Byres road or by the actor, David Tennant, best know for his roles as ‘The Doctor’ in Doctor Who? Worry not, you can search safe in the knowledge that you are likely to find what you are looking for whether you are a tenant or a landlord. Any one for a pint?
P.S. Top tip to remember how to spell accommodation? It’s big enough to accommodate a double ‘c’ and a double ‘m’ ♥
