WebSource.it is a newly launched search engine that enables its users to compare two or more words and it will help to verify which one of them is the more correct word by returning the popularity of these words. Of course, you can compare more words on this search engine; a little trick here is to press “tab” on your keyboard will allow you to compare up to five (5) words.
Users will find it useful when they’re not sure the words they’re going to use are singular versus plural, with or without hyphens, verb variation, abbreviations, or the random phrases they’ve came across. On personal, I will bookmark it for my future use. As I am a Chinese educated, and only learned to speak English while I pursuing my University education, I will need this simple Web site to check the common misspelling of the words I am going to use.
Playing around this WebSource.it with some words comparison, I find that users will be more convinced if they know that the word with the more results shown often the word that is correct. It seemed like we all believed in majority rule, but it’s not always the case.
As the image below demonstrates, I compared two words, i.e. google slap versus google slapped. These words were derived from the personal failure experience in advertised products with Google Adwords. I tried to advertised a product on the Web by using Google Adwords, my account did showed that the quality score is low, and for certain keywords Google told me to bid for $10 for a particular keyword. Later I knew I was in a situation that is called “Google Slap/Slapped.” Aha.
I tried to check these random phrases using this WebSource.it, it returned that “google slap” is the more correct word, but it is not commensurable to the results fetched from Google (See another image below), albeit that WebSource.it stated in its faq page, it uses the Google API to query the Google search engine and return and display the number of Google hits found.
There is a saying, you can learn a lot more from your failure than your success. I knew I was getting slapped by Google (my Adwords account), but today I learned a new correct word as well. In an example showed in the above, I may need to give the word “google slap” the benefit of the doubt.
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