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Either that, or it might get build in one of these newfangled "start-ups". Good luck buying, for $10,000, a company that has a spellchecker better than Microsof
by mseebach 16y ago
Either that, or it might get build in one of these newfangled "start-ups". Good luck buying, for $10,000, a company that has a spellchecker better than Microsofts.
- chc 16y agoGood luck building a company around a spell-checker, no matter what level of quality, in a world where most people already have Office.
- rhizome 16y agoFor word processing, sure, but Thunderbird and Swype are two examples of software that I use on a daily basis that have uses for spell checking.
- derefr 16y agoA sufficiently-smart spell-checker would be indistinguishable from a translation aide, sentiment analyzer, voice-recognition classifier, etc. Basically, whatever tech is required to make spell-checkers better has other uses than spell-checking, and those might be valuable.
- adrianN 16y agoA sufficiently-smart spell-checker would be indistinguishable from an artificial intelligence. A company producing one of those things would make billions, but not by selling a spell-checker.
- derefr 16y agoI didn't mean it would be indistinguishable from all of those things (because it is an AGI and could act as any of those things if it wished), but rather that it would likely have to incorporate one or more of those things to spell better. I have a feeling sentiment analysis alone would be a pretty good next step for spelling/grammar-checking.
- alextp 16y agoThe founder of http://afterthedeadline.com/ http://afterthedeadline.com/ hangs out in hn, so I think you should take this issue up with him.
- calvinf 16y agoAnd I'm guessing he received more than $10,000 from Automattic (WordPress.com) when they acquired him / his company. http://blog.afterthedeadline.com/2009/09/08/after-the-deadline-acquired/ http://blog.afterthedeadline.com/2009/09/08/after-the-deadli...
- chc 16y agoJust to be clear, that's more than just a spell checker.