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There's a difference between suggesting corrections (like office) and trying to guess your next word though. Google does both, but unless you misspell "blacks a
by mcintyre1994 14y ago
There's a difference between suggesting corrections (like office) and trying to guess your next word though. Google does both, but unless you misspell "blacks are ruining America" it's not going to suggest thataas a correction. Since apparently they expect it to be searched they suggest it as you're typing, but I don't think office does any sort of word prediction as you type? As you said, bing does the same. The standard is higher for office and other actual spell checks because they shouldn't be changing something that isn't meant to say "black people are ruining America" into that. Prediction is entirely different.
- codeka 14y agoActually, Google Docs suggests spellings the same way Google Search does. It's actually quite cool: http://lifehacker.com/5895252/googles-new-spell-check-is-crazy-awesome http://lifehacker.com/5895252/googles-new-spell-check-is-cra...
- mcintyre1994 14y agoVery neat. I wonder if Office online does the same using Bing's predictive features. It's still not the same as filling in "are ruining America" if you type "black men" though, Google docs doesn't do prediction like that. It's 'just' a way more clever spell checker. My point is that comparing Google search to Office isn't a sensible comparison to make, and the fact that Google's version of Office behaves similarly to Office, and Microsoft's search works similarly to Google in prediction/spell checking is pretty much exactly what I was getting at. It would be neat to see prediction as a feature in Office/Docs etc. though, there's a pretty huge corpus of essays available, it'd be interesting to see how accurately a new one can be predicted.