Doesn't know "they're" from "their"??

spelly & linky would be very nice inside Gmail.
i think searchy already exists as a 'Labs' experiment.

Good grief that's clever

@Guffy - Well, that's not the only problem with "Their coming to see if its real", but actually that mistake is relatively small compared to how it changed "its reel" to "its real". That is, "their coming" is quite a valid phrase, despite the implication by the following "to" that this is not the intended meaning.

For "its reel" -> "its real", on the other hand, the correction makes less sense than the original! It would be different, of course, if it had suggested "it's" for "its".

@Anonymous - HUH? In the context of the sentence given, how is "their coming" considered valid? The only way "their coming" can be valid is if it's used in a sentence where "their" is actually a possessive pronoun. For example, "Their arrival was unexpected."

The sentence shown in this blog entry would not be valid if "their coming" was considered valid. Never-the-less you are correct when you reference "its real" as a fault.

The correct grammar would be "They're coming to see if it's real."

My example compared Gmail's spell checker with Google Search's "did you mean" message, not with Google Wave's context-sensitive spell checker. We'll have to wait and see if the new spell checker delivers better results.

I don't see why they couldn't import this new context spell checker into Gmail.

@John Yup, I didn't mean that "their coming" was valid in context the "complete" context of the sentence, as I said -- merely that "their coming" is, taken by itself, a usable combination of two words, whereas "its real" is not (at least not in any context I can think of).

This needs to be on YouTube comments. Now.

You can try Ghotit.com (www.Ghotit.com) a great Context-Sensitive Spell Checker that includes a plug in for Microsoft Word

I see people get they're/there/their incorrect more often than not. If they're basing their spell checker on popular usage, I'm not sure I want it.

Ginger is a much better context-sensitive spell checker - www.gingersoftware.com. It corrects full texts automatically and it is free...

Ginger seems to be a great software, but there are some things that could be improved:

* it only works as an add-on for Microsoft Word, so you can't use it in a browser or in other operating system than Windows
* you need to install an application and create an account (for free). The online interface seems to be limited to very short sentences.
* the software doesn't correct your text as you type, you need to manually correct each sentence one by one.
* it's very slow; you can wait even 10 seconds for longer texts.
* it's limited to English.

Let's compare it with Google software:
* it works online
* limited to Google Wave, but I don't see why it wouldn't be integrated in Gmail, Google Docs or even made available through an API.
* it works in realtime, so it's fast
* it's not limited to English

I think it's a nice little added capability. Sometimes the spell checkers are just a nuisance for that very reason.

I think this is fantastic and to me (background in AI, long ago: ) this is the most impressive feature of Google Wave!

Does anyone know ANY product out there that does this? So smart and well? I would love to hear about them...

For now: eagerly awaiting my invite : >

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I think that the Ginger approach is better in handling context. If you correct while you type, you have very limited understanding of the context. Make sense to finish a sentence and then correct.
I would think that Ginger will not be limited to MS Word or one OS, they never said so. Wait for their first release.

How do you use this service? How do you get this spell checker on Gmail? Kazoo from Ohio

It's true Ginger is free but not for long, I have seeing Ginger planned pricing for educational institutes and it is far from being free (most probably home user will pay more)

@John
I think that this is an excellent example of how it is optimised for short queries, hopefully wave will be more comprehensive.

I hope that Google will add the Spell Checker from Google Wave to Gmail Spell Checker and Google Docs Spell Checker?

This spellchecker would be great...Well this is an amazing thing...Google has always come up with new applications and attracts a lot of people..

first of all google is king of the search engine industry but the other software also develop like google analytics,google insight,google adwords and google doc. there feature is new and useful also.

I usually type a phrase into Google instead of spell-checking it as it gives me more 'intelligent' results. Binding search results and spell-checker sounds great.

Dang....you people are picky....
i put out thair whut i can to get my pont across. :))

Well, I am happy to have ad control option with the opportunity to give feedback. Shall see how we do. Just setting up on my new Vista, so getting used to lots of new controls. Shall see how Sifter works as an advertising platform.

I want to know why the Google spell checker doesn't pick up when I forget to capitalize the "i" in words like "I" "I'll" and "I'm" even though it will tell me when I've spelled the word "I've" wrong because I used a lowercase instead of a capital "i".

Google Wave is a good step in context spelling, but still behind even MS-Word-2007, not talking about Ghotit.

You can see the sentence from Wiki well-corrected by Ghotit, and look at the comparison among the context spellers here:
http://www.ghotit.com/contextspellcheckers.shtml

Ghotit web-site has an online spelling and grammar checker as well as a plugin for MS-Word.

Google Wave sounds cool. But I'm a loyal consumer using this spell check tool. It's free and has grammar checker plus no need to install anything.

Does this make sense?
I hope I'm not too complex...?
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