Poor Spelling Beats Google's China Filter

["Richard M. Smith" <rms () computerbytesman com>]

Your Rights Online <http://yro.slashdot.org/> : Poor Spelling Beats Google's
China Filter 

Posted by CmdrTaco <http://cmdrtaco.net/>  on Tuesday January 31, @08:29AM
from the see-thats-why-i-misspell-stuff dept. 
 <http://slashdot.org/search.pl?tid=217>  
antifoidulus writes "CNN's money section contains a blurb(among other
blurbs) about how poor
<http://money.cnn.com/2006/01/30/technology/browser0130/index.htm?cnn=yes>
spelling can beat Google's Chinese filter. The example given in the article
is that a search for "Tiananmen" will yield peaceful pictures of the square,
but a search for common mis-spellings such as "Tienanmen" will yield plenty
of photos of tanks." 

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