Sunday, December 05, 2004

Google and Misspidering

Strange behaviour of Google. The index page of this site has been dropped from the Google Index. Is it a kind of mis-spidering, mis-crawling or mis-indexing??? I don't know, but it is at least mis-terious.

Friday, October 08, 2004

definition of misspelling via wikipedia

Misspelling refers to spelling a word incorrectly. Misspelling is distinguished from other errors in writing, such as grammatical errors, incorrect capitalization or misuse of punctuation. A misspelled word can be a series of letters ...

Have a look at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia in order to read the full article.

Saturday, September 04, 2004

word recognition at microsoft research

A very interesting article from microsoft research named The Science of Word Recognition. Learn about the different theories on how humans read - Word Shape, Serial Letter Recognition and Parallel Letter Recognition. Fascinating.

Friday, June 18, 2004

first result of the bachlor experiment

Here you can see the first result of our little bachlor experiment some weeks ago. The site went up from position 9 to 3 in google search results for the search phrase online bachlor degree. Not impressive, but a nice move that shows that one missing/additional letter can make quite a big difference in search engine worlds :)

Friday, April 30, 2004

Bachlor or Bachlors, that's the question

Not every mistyping or misspelling happens by accident, some of this typing errors happen with intent to search engine optimization efforts. For example, the following link online bachlor degree should help to raise the position in the google results for the keyphrase "online bachlor degree". And in order to enhance another page for the plural "online bachlor degrees", it makes sense to give it a second link named online bachlor degrees. We will track the rankings of this two phrases and we will see whether it made sense or not.

Thursday, March 18, 2004

Suchmaschienen

Auch im Deutschen gibt es nette Rechtschreibfehler - einer der beliebteren ist die Schreibweise Suchmaschienen. Ein paar Hinweise zur Häufigkeit und ein paar weitere Infos bringt der folgende Suchmaschienen Beitrag.

Friday, December 26, 2003

Marry Christmess and a Heppy New Yaer!

I wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year ;-)

Tuesday, September 16, 2003

Scrmabeld Txet

Jeremy pointed out a nice script made by jwz that's related to a nice story about misspellings: "Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht frist and lsat ltteer is at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not raed ervey lteter by it slef but the wrod as a wlohe. ceehiro."

A raelly pertty sorty :)

Sunday, September 14, 2003

goggle


The keyword goggle is a very common misspelling for google, the world's greatest and most famous search engine. The misspelling is based on a misspeaking resp. mishearing of the original word. Google descends from googol, which is 10 to the 100th power (which is the figure 1 followed by 100 zeros).

Thursday, September 04, 2003

eaby


The keyword eaby is a very common misspelling for ebay, the world's greatest online auction company. The misspelling is based on a permutation of two characters.

Wednesday, August 13, 2003

Miss Spelling presents some misspellings. Among other things we will show that even a misspelling at educational promotion sites like http://www.online-accredited-degrees.org or http://www.online-masters-degree.org makes sense.