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Open-Source Spell-Check

By The Daily Dish
Jan 11 2009, 2:11 AM ET

Chris Wilson imagines a better spell-check:

There's no reason why spell-check dictionaries need to be so behind the times. All the technology to build a relevant, timely spelling database already exists in search engines like Google and Microsoft's own Live Search, which have a vast vocabulary of words and names and update their dictionaries in near real time.



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