Title

Spelling and searching the internet: An overlooked problem

Abstract

Misspellings, phonetic spellings, deliberately idiosyncratic spellings, typographical, and other errors are examined in relation to the Internet’s lack of standardization. Despite the dramatic effect different spellings have on the outcome of searches, this topic has not been adequately addressed in the literature nor have solutions been suggested hitherto.

Department(s)

MSU Libraries

Document Type

Article

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1016/s0099-1333(02)00321-x

Publication Date

9-1-2002

Journal Title

The Journal of academic librarianship

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