John Patrick Given

Ruby, Rails, Javascript, Basketball, & Randomness

Google Knows I'm a Terrible Speller

I'm a programmer. I spend all day, everyday, writing code. As any programmer will tell you, Google is an invaluable resource for our industry. In a typical day I may ask Google as many as 10 questions about nuances pertaining to a programming language, a framework, a design pattern, or whatever.

While using Google today, something dawned on me:

Google knows I'm a terrible speller.

I can't give a percentage of how many times I see "Did you mean?" or "Showing results for..." when I type a Google query, but I imagine it's higher than I'd like to admit.

After my revelation I couldn't help but wonder if that kind of information is advantageous to Google when conducting interviews. Seems reasonable to me, only I had never thought about it before.

Now, I have absolutely no plans to apply to Google, I'm very happy thank you, but after todays revelation, I may never want to :)

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Hi there. My name is J.P. and I write web based software for a living. My real web site is located here. I tweet about stuff here. I scrobble music occassionally here.

This is my Posterous. I'm a terrible writer. Don't judge me.