The importance of misspelling on the web

[Pam Davies]

On 22 Dec 97 at 14:55, Joe Barker wrote:

 >  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.  

The search was for " ... and not millennium " and yet 1 in 6 of the 
hits contained the word "millennium"?    Says something about the 
thoroughness of indexing of the search engine, doesn't it?

Pam

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