Google spell check tool bar

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Category: IndiaReviewChannel. Points: 2. Google Toolbar and Spell Check Google toolbar allows you to perform a variety of quick tasks: 1. Check spelling in any web page before you post content 2. Search in google 3. Block annoying popup ads We strongly encourage you to install google toolbar and use the spell check option before you submit any resource in this category. If you press the 'Check' button on the google toolbar, it will check the spelling of all text in the textboxes in the page and give you suggestions.

Limitations are that every user needs to get an API key and it is limited to transactions a day. Limitations are that it wont work on windows, lots of servers with no psell or ispell installed c setup an API on a server for WP blogs to use. Downside is that dictionary files are large. Google actually has two. The first is its publicly available Search API which includes an option to returned spell checked items. This looked promising, but the search limit was disappointing.

Apparently, this undocumented API has been well-known for sometime, going back to when Google first released its beta Firefox toolbar.

What interesting as well and I tool a look at the source to see it for myself — is that within the toolbar, Google has a number of code comments that indicate if a specific piece of functionality is intended to be used by outside organizations.

A good example of this is the pagerank calls in the toolbar. Quite the contrary, there are a number of people building interfaces to this api. You can find them here and here and here and here and here. So I figured, why not a ruby. No one is perfect and we do not claim to find every error in your text. That is just not possible with a machine-only check. If others claim they can do this automatically, it is just not correct.

The last resort is always a human and even this person may fail from time to time. Nevertheless, our online spellchecker will help you find the most errors and will also make suggestions for grammatical improvements. We have included a feature where you can tag words that have been marked as being spelled incorrect or grammatically wrong by our system, but are nevertheless correct e. If you have registered with us, this will allow you to mark these words and add them to your own personal dictionary.

We will use this information for your further checks. Furthermore, if you click on a word, we provide a dictionary entry with several possible meanings of said word. Once we have received and checked your text, we will display the corrected text. During your manual review of the corrected text, you have several options to handle the information we produce.

You can revert a change made by us, use our thesaurus to find synonyms or rearrange sentences. We also give some detailed explanations about why a word might be wrong and include examples. To write a text without any errors is difficult, even for experts.