"query suggest" --wunder

On 6/4/09 1:25 AM, "Michael Ludwig" <m...@as-guides.com> wrote:

> Yao Ge schrieb:
> 
>> Maybe we should call this "alternative search terms" or
>> "suggested search terms" instead of spell checking. It is
>> misleading as there is no right or wrong in spelling, there
>> is only popular (term frequency?) alternatives.
> 
> I had exactly the same difficulty in understanding the concept
> because of the name given to the feature, which usually denotes
> just what it says, i.e. a spellchecker, which is driven by an
> authoritative dictionary and a set of rules, as integrated in
> word processors, in order to ensure orthography.
> 
> What we have here is quite different from a spellchecker.
> 
> IMHO, a name conveying the actual meaning, along the lines of
> "suggest", would make more sense.
> 
> Michael Ludwig

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