Discovered that there is a new feature called “Spell Check” in Google Toolbar, my favorite and only toolbar in my IE.? I didn't notice that until recently I accidentally click the button right beside PageRank indicator, which triggered the spelling check and it checked all my spellings in my web form and found a bunch of typos.? It is so cool that I don't have to type my words in Word to get all typos corrected and paste them into the web form anymore.
Also, curious on how Google does this? Joel Spolsky?pointed out that:
A very senior Microsoft developer who moved to Google told me that Google works and thinks at a higher level of abstraction than Microsoft. "Google uses Bayesian filtering the way Microsoft uses the if statement," he said. That's true. Google also uses full-text-search-of-the-entire-Internet the way Microsoft uses little tables that list what error IDs correspond to which help text. Look at how Google does spell checking: it's not based on dictionaries; it's based on word usage statistics of the entire Internet, which is why Google knows how to correct my name, misspelled, and Microsoft Word doesn't.