In this example, Bing's speller needs to understand the difference between "sea" and "see" and "reel" and "real. Spell checking your queries has been a part of the search experience for a while. Auto-correcting your spelling mistakes is almost...
Guess Jeeves was the strong speller in that crew! The BOTW boys were quick to find and post the mistake Ask made on their homepage. Is the staff that annoyed by the break up that they don't care anymore?
They first apologized and then said that they have "disabled the speller function" for the time being. So, one would assume the speller function has something to do with the outage. Uh oh. MSN Search is dead at Threadwatch covers MSN Search being...
To improve the speller we worked with Silviu Cucerzan and Eric Brill from Microsoft Researchs Text Mining, Search and Navigation Group. The msnsearch WebLog has a post about the spelling correction software developed for the new MSN Search.
Searching for music required you to have a relatively good idea of what you were looking for ahead of time, were a good speller, and had a high tolerance for garbage search results. While Napster remains shuttered and in a probable death-spiral...
