Anybody else use google to spellcheck?

Octavious · Post by **Octavious** » Tue Oct 19, 2004 11:56 pm

If you haven't noticed my grammer=the suck. I think google was invented just to spellcheck for my sorry ass. 8)

dangerballs · Post by **dangerballs** » Wed Oct 20, 2004 12:26 am

I use iespell mostly. Its just an easy right click.

http://www.iespell.com/download.php

Octavious · Post by **Octavious** » Wed Oct 20, 2004 12:27 am

Ohhh I can feel the power!!!! Now if it could make me make sense we would be golden!

monkyskunk · Post by **monkyskunk** » Wed Oct 20, 2004 12:33 am

I do all the time, although I might have to look into using that iespell. Thanks for that link dangerballs

knob · Post by **knob** » Wed Oct 20, 2004 1:03 am

Yep. It was even better back when I used Opera (Sorry, Zaxxon. I've moved on to FireFox almost exclusively).

In Opera, it was just as simple as typing "g InsertWordHere" since Opera has a shortcut that if you put "G" before the word, it automatically searches Google for that word. That's one thing I wish Mozilla had.

EngineNo9 · Post by **EngineNo9** » Wed Oct 20, 2004 1:14 am

I use www.dictionary.com for my spell checking, definitions and thesaurus needs.

Mookee · Post by **Mookee** » Wed Oct 20, 2004 1:15 am

Valael wrote:In Opera, it was just as simple as typing "g InsertWordHere" since Opera has a shortcut that if you put "G" before the word, it automatically searches Google for that word. That's one thing I wish Mozilla had.

It does.

Bookmarks > Manage Bookmarks > Click the "new bookmark icon" (or right click and select properties if you already have a google bookmark) > insert this as the bookmark location:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=U ... gle+Search

Name it.

Put a G in the keyword box.

Done.

The %s portion of the URL equals the search term. You can do this with any search engine and link to any keyword you put before the search term in the URL bar.

knob · Post by **knob** » Wed Oct 20, 2004 1:36 am

EngineNo9 wrote:I use www.dictionary.com for my spell checking, definitions and thesaurus needs.

I used to do that all the time, except with a Google bar in my browser, that's just too much work.

And thanks a lot, Mookee. Worked like a charm. Life is good.

dbt1949 · Post by **dbt1949** » Wed Oct 20, 2004 2:17 am

Do it all the time.Well,maybe not ALL the time,but I probably should.

CeeKay · Post by **CeeKay** » Wed Oct 20, 2004 9:58 am

speelcheckers ar for peeple whoo cannt spell!

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Wed Oct 20, 2004 10:10 am

I let google figure out how to spell things for me all of the time. I don't actually spell check unless I am doing business writing. And then it's painstaking because my typing skillz is teh suck.

Padre · Post by **Padre** » Wed Oct 20, 2004 10:31 am

Mookee wrote:
Valael wrote:In Opera, it was just as simple as typing "g InsertWordHere" since Opera has a shortcut that if you put "G" before the word, it automatically searches Google for that word. That's one thing I wish Mozilla had.
It does.

I have mine set up so that typing "dict <word>" does an automatic dictionary .com search for the word, and "google <word>" does a google search.

Also cool is that I can just type words straight into the address bar, and Firefox will take me straight t the page with the highest google rank for those search terms, which 49 times out of 50 is the one you wanted.

MzDarm · Post by **MzDarm** » Wed Oct 20, 2004 10:43 am

This is a very funny topic, becuase I thought I was the only retard using google to spellcheck. I don't feel so bad now.

BTW- Hi all GGr's, and thanks goes out to MHS for letting me know of this site. DocDarm and I have been posting on Console Gold.

MzDarm
Nueva York

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Wed Oct 20, 2004 10:48 am

Hey MD,

Howze the Halloween costuming coming?

khomotso · Post by **khomotso** » Wed Oct 20, 2004 11:02 am

I used to do that all the time, except with a Google bar in my browser, that's just too much work.

There's a Firefox add-on I use that lets me select any word on the page, right-click and do a dictionary.com lookup on the word in a new tab. Indispensable.

It's called "DictionarySearch"

Tscott · Post by **Tscott** » Wed Oct 20, 2004 12:47 pm

I first use the Spellbound Extension in Firefox to spellcheck, but that's not the swiftest in coming up with suggestions- I just spelled "popcicle" in a different thread and it came up with no suggestions for the misspelled word.

Next step was to use Super Drag and Go to google the word which very easily came up with "Did you mean: popsicle."

Dirt · Post by **Dirt** » Wed Oct 20, 2004 12:48 pm

No, I don't use it.

Bakhtosh · Post by **Bakhtosh** » Wed Oct 20, 2004 12:56 pm

I open up a new e-mail in outlook, type or paste the word, hit F7, and go from there.

Jag · Post by **Jag** » Wed Oct 20, 2004 1:24 pm

Google does so much, spelling, calculations, conversions, stock quotes, tracking numbers. Put in a UPS or FEDEX tracking number in google and it will give you the tracking link!

Rip · Post by **Rip** » Wed Oct 20, 2004 1:35 pm

I do as well. Google is Da Bomb!

MzDarm · Post by **MzDarm** » Wed Oct 20, 2004 10:13 pm

LordMortis wrote:Hey MD,

Howze the Halloween costuming coming?

I have all the makings for our Halloween costume. As stated before, DocDarm will be a dead greaser and me a devlish uhm... Devil. We will take pics and I will post the decent ones.

MzDarm
Nueva York

RookieCAF · Post by **RookieCAF** » Thu Oct 21, 2004 8:21 am

Do we have a spullchucker here?

hentzau · Post by **hentzau** » Thu Oct 21, 2004 12:13 pm

Octavious230 wrote:Ohhh I can feel the power!!!! Now if it could make me make sense we would be golden!

And the funny thing is, I had to read your post twice for it to make sense.

Rubyeye · Post by **Rubyeye** » Thu Oct 21, 2004 12:42 pm

Hey, ieSpell is pretty cool. Thanks for the nifty program.