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The new stable version of Chrome, 26.0.1410.43 m for those of you still counting, has baked in the spell check tech The Chocolate Factory uses when you type in its search dialog. The results, depicted below, add an “ask Google for suggestions” option. Google’s blog announcing the feature shows that feature helping to explain …

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  1. M Gale

    Candidate for a Pullet Surprise

    by Mark Eckman and Jerrold H. Zar

    I have a spelling checker,

    It came with my PC.

    It plane lee marks four my revue

    Miss steaks aye can knot sea.

    Eye ran this poem threw it,

    Your sure reel glad two no.

    Its vary polished in it's weigh.

    My checker tolled me sew.

    A checker is a bless sing,

    It freeze yew lodes of thyme.

    It helps me right awl stiles two reed,

    And aides me when eye rime.

    Each frays come posed up on my screen

    Eye trussed too bee a joule.

    The checker pours o'er every word

    To cheque sum spelling rule.

    Bee fore a veiling checker's

    Hour spelling mite decline,

    And if we're lacks oar have a laps,

    We wood bee maid too wine.

    Butt now bee cause my spelling

    Is checked with such grate flare,

    Their are know fault's with in my cite,

    Of nun eye am a wear.

    Now spelling does knot phase me,

    It does knot bring a tier.

    My pay purrs awl due glad den

    With wrapped word's fare as hear.

    To rite with care is quite a feet

    Of witch won should bee proud,

    And wee mussed dew the best wee can,

    Sew flaw's are knot aloud.

    Sow ewe can sea why aye dew prays

    Such soft wear four pea seas,

    And why eye brake in two averse

    Buy righting want too pleas.

    1. Primus Secundus Tertius

      Language is Cruel

      Krwelti Tw Children

      A FROLLICK, by Allan M. Laing

      Mai hart is sad for littel wunz

      Hw wend dhair uai tw skwl

      Tw lern dhe Inglish speling uith

      Itz total lak ov rwl.

    2. Field Marshal Von Krakenfart
      Headmaster

      Butt Shirley...

      I have a spelling chequer,

      It came with my Pea Sea....

  2. Rampant Spaniel

    To be fair its spelling and grammar are probably far better than mine :)

  3. Dan 55 Silver badge
    Big Brother

    Oh look, it needs a constant connection to the net

    And it funnels all your posts to Google, complete with your Googly ID if you're logged in.

    I'm shocked, I really am.

    1. JDX Gold badge

      Re: Oh look, it needs a constant connection to the net

      A web browser needs an internet connection? Whatever next....

      It's almost as bad as The Register - everytime I post a comment those bastards store it on their server.

      1. Dan 55 Silver badge
        Boffin

        Re: Oh look, it needs a constant connection to the net

        Cloudy spell check isn't so good if you're on the train is it?

        And I'd rather not have Google suck my e-mail or my credit card number into their cloud, thanking you.

        1. The lone lurker
          Meh

          Re: Oh look, it needs a constant connection to the net @ Dan 55

          Then just don't use Chrome! If you are really this paranoid about Google then you're certainly not using any of their other services like search, Gmail or Drive are you? If this is the case then this has absolutely no effect on you and makes your posts ultimately pointless.

          Firefox and Opera have had multiple spell check add-ons for donkey's years, use them instead. They both also have an offline mode so you can continue to do your web-browsing without an internet connection.

          I fed the troll and I liked it.

          1. Dan 55 Silver badge

            Re: Oh look, it needs a constant connection to the net @ Dan 55

            You mean you'd happily let an organisation which has nothing to do with the services you use have a copy of everything you send to those services? If you wouldn't let MS or Apple or the government, why would you let Google?

            Troll, moi?

      2. Anonymous Coward
        Anonymous Coward

        @JDC That's one of the worst comparisons I have seen for a while.

        No, a browser does not need an Internet connection to function. You could use a browser to do a number of things on an offline PC. To get the most out of a browser you need an Internet connection though.

        To get the most out of major desktop OSs you need an Internet connection too. Would it be justified for them to upload all your keystrokes?

        1. Anonymous Coward
          Anonymous Coward

          Amusingly that was supposed to be @JDX. Alas I have a phone

          keyboard and fat fingers.

    2. Anonymous Coward
      Holmes

      Re: Oh look, it needs a constant connection to the net

      >"And it funnels all your posts to Google, complete with your Googly ID if you're logged in. I'm shocked, I really am."

      Dan - did you really log into your el Reg account and accept their tracking cookie to post this comment?

      I'm shocked, I really am.

      1. Dan 55 Silver badge
        FAIL

        Re: Oh look, it needs a constant connection to the net

        I know the shadow of Vulture Towers is long but I don't think it extends to being the de-facto monopoly search engine and Internet advertising network.

  4. azurelunatic
    Headmaster

    One certainly hopes that it has stopped suggesting "alot" as a correction for "a lot".

    Accepting the wisdom of a few million pounders upon keyboard without filtering the results through a dictionary first -- not always the best life choice.

    1. Robin
      Meh

      re: alot

      It gets worse.

      'Prolly' is in the Oxford Dictionary online. Good old Cambridge still holding out though.

  5. Ross K Silver badge
    Joke

    Chrom?

    Annie fule kno dat IE6 is 4 winnarz

  6. Lars Silver badge
    Happy

    Do we expect too much

    There is still a difference between checking a word and trying to check a sentence. In other words "its" is a good as "it's". At least my spellchecker does not blush with "its Sunday to day". And I don't expect it either.

  7. Graham Marsden
    Boffin

    Dew knot putt...

    ... awl yore trussed inn spill chequers...

  8. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    >"The Reg’s sub-editorial corps"

    LOL. I see what you did there!

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