Comments on: Want to rank sites by quality? Check spelling and grammar! http://www.abhishekrungta.com/want-to-rank-sites-by-quality-check-spelling-and-grammer/3/ Abhishek Rungta's Blog - Business strategy, Internet marketing, Usability, Web design, Productivity Tips, India Mon, 28 Jun 2010 02:48:22 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: graywolf http://www.abhishekrungta.com/want-to-rank-sites-by-quality-check-spelling-and-grammer/3/comment-page-1/#comment-14660 graywolf Sun, 23 Sep 2007 13:35:57 +0000 http://abhishekrungta.com/?p=3#comment-14660 Google doesn't give a rat's patooty about proper spelling and or grammar, for example here's one of several tests I did http://www.google.com/search?q=Ichthyosaur+Didgeridoo+Asterism+Velutinous where the top ranked post has 100% of the words in the post spelled wrong Google doesn’t give a rat’s patooty about proper spelling and or grammar, for example here’s one of several tests I did
http://www.google.com/search?q=Ichthyosaur+Didgeridoo+Asterism+Velutinous

where the top ranked post has 100% of the words in the post spelled wrong

]]> By: Saptarshi http://www.abhishekrungta.com/want-to-rank-sites-by-quality-check-spelling-and-grammer/3/comment-page-1/#comment-810 Saptarshi Fri, 02 Mar 2007 13:06:04 +0000 http://abhishekrungta.com/?p=3#comment-810 I agree with you, spelling and grammer are definitely two very important factors that can be used to judge the quality of any website. It is beyond doubt that Google has enough resource to get these factors into their algo , however, there is one important question that comes to my mind when I think of "spelling and grammer" being included in the algo - the question is , English has got various dialects and styles. Particularly the form of language used by Americans is no where close to the original form of the language in terms of spelling and grammer but the irony is that is the most commonly used form in the business world today. Google being an US based company, it is most likely that they will accept those American style spellings to be correct but someone from UK would never use such spellings or grammer in his site. In this case, should Google consider the UK form of English as incorrect ? If not, Google will have to work with two versions of English, UK and USA and accept both of them as correct. Now, if they are accepting the distorted American version of the language as correct, then isn't it justified for the European countries like France or German (most of these countries use horrible spelling and grammer, if at all they are using English) to put up a claim for their form of the language ? I agree with you, spelling and grammer are definitely two very important factors that can be used to judge the quality of any website. It is beyond doubt that Google has enough resource to get these factors into their algo , however, there is one important question that comes to my mind when I think of “spelling and grammer” being included in the algo – the question is ,
English has got various dialects and styles. Particularly the form of language used by Americans is no where close to the original form of the language in terms of spelling and grammer but the irony is that is the most commonly used form in the business world today. Google being an US based company, it is most likely that they will accept those American style spellings to be correct but someone from UK would never use such spellings or grammer in his site. In this case, should Google consider the UK form of English as incorrect ? If not, Google will have to work with two versions of English, UK and USA and accept both of them as correct.

Now, if they are accepting the distorted American version of the language as correct, then isn’t it justified for the European countries like France or German (most of these countries use horrible spelling and grammer, if at all they are using English) to put up a claim for their form of the language ?

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