Spell for points with a new Google-built Chrome game that pumps up your spelling while testing your word skills. Amanda Kooser Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a ...

Google today released a new Chrome experiment called Spell Up, a word game designed to help improve your grasp of the English language using only your voice. You can ...

Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. Yacht.

One of the wonderful things about using Google for search is that you don’t always have to know how to spell things properly, as the search engine learns alternate spellings for things as people ...

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You suck at spelling, and that's a problem for Google. Its whole search business relies on figuring out what you want and serving that to you as quickly as possible. As such, the company invests a lot ...

Google itself has some of its own spelling problems to sort out. Its original map spelled Washington D.C.'s most searched word as "nintey," which is definitely not how you spell out the number 90. It ...

Google Docs—the beloved tool without which this site would grind to a halt—has updated its spell checker! Sure, in theory that's a "what could be more boring" scenario. But you guys, it's pretty ...

Google has long offered its "Did you mean:" spelling corrections, and even fixed your slight typos in its auto-completing suggestions. Now Google.com will actively suggest spelling fixes in drop-down ...

“What does an NSL compel Google to disclose? Under the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) 18 U.S.C. section 2709, the FBI can seek “the name, address ...

It appears that Google is testing showing a red squiggly line in the Google search box as you type, if they feel the spelling of your query is wrong. You know, the ...