The importance of misspelling on the web

[Joe Barker]

In web-searching, it may make sense to search the misspellings as well as
the correct one.  The search (millenium or milennium or milenium) and not
millennium in Alta Vista retrieves almost 122,000 documents.  only about
20,000 of those also contain the word correctly spelled.  The total with
millennium correctly spelled is under 220,000.  So, a third of the web
authors need Robert's admonition below. 

	Joe Barker, The Teaching Library, UC Berkeley

On Thu, 18 Dec 1997, Robert Rasmussen wrote:

> It's happened now so many times I can't keep quiet. If you're planning or
> presenting a conference, paper, or whatever on "Something in the New
> Millennium" watch out for its spelling. It has two of "n" and also two of "l".
> 
> (Now don't get me started on apostrophes)
> 
> Regards,
> ...Bob Rasmussen,   President,   Rasmussen Software, Inc.
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