Daily Update, Jan. 3rd – Building a State-of-the-Art Speller for Bing

Is it Swarzinegar, Swarneger, Scwarznagger or Schwartiznegar? These are just a few of more than 2,000 different ways users on Bing have typed their queries in hope of searching for “Schwarzenegger.” The aim of the Bing Speller is to correct these queries so users receive relevant web results that match their intent even when their query is misspelt. A great speller makes a search engine feel like magic to the users. In this Bing Search Blog post, Jim Kleban provides an overview of Bing Speller technology with some examples of recent improvements we just shipped in December.

Posted by Jeff Meisner
Editor, The Official Microsoft Blog