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Search spelling correction

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Tom 14 years ago at May 14 18:59 -
When there are no results in the search it will now attempt to correct your input. There is a small delay before this appears e.g.

www.listal.com/search/movies/1/?query=shawshan+redeptin
and actors, artist, authors also: www.listal.com/search/movies/1/?query=arnold+swartzenegger

Try it :)
Hyomil 14 years ago at May 15 7:05 -
Wonderful. But do you come up with the corrections by finding items with the most similar spellings or by just using the search terms members most commonly used in the search prior to the search where they found a result they clicked on? I'm guessing the latter because your link for "arnold swatenegger" leads to a page whose only suggestion is "Did you mean arnold swartzenegger?" which is also a misspelling! LOL Moreover, there isn't even an entry on listal in any category with that title. Its like its toying with me. How many "Did you mean" links might you have to click through before finally happening on the right one (arnold schwarzenegger)?
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Tom 14 years ago at May 15 12:48 -
I use a third party to get the results (bing), not sure why it is doing that double correction thing, I guess it's because lot of people search for "swartzenegger" which is closer than the real thing, I've updated the example. Other than that bad example it seems to work for most things.
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Deleted 14 years ago at May 15 23:29 -
Very exciting and very useful! Thanks a lot Tom! :)
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Deleted 14 years ago at May 19 19:22 -
Any way to make this work for "Rearrange or add to this list" mode, too?
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The O.P. 11 years, 2 months ago at Mar 18 17:47 -
Is it working?

No search results for 'shawshan redeptin'

No search results for 'arnold swartzenegger'