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  2. Google (verb) - Wikipedia

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    The first recorded usage of google was as a gerund, on July 8, 1998, by Google co-founder Larry Page himself, who wrote on a mailing list: "Have fun and keep googling!". [7] Its earliest known use as an explicitly transitive verb on American television was in the "Help" episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer (October 15, 2002), when Willow asked Buffy, "Have you googled her yet?".

  3. List of commonly misused English words - Wikipedia

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    Uncommon except in law: This phone comes with a written one-year guaranty against defects. (Use warranty in most contexts, which is more precise and more common.) Uncommon except in law : The guarantee studio received a $50 million payout from the completion bond firm.

  4. Commonly misspelled English words - Wikipedia

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    Personal names and surnames may be pronounced like a standard English word, but with different spelling: "balance" and "John Ballance"; "war" and "Evelyn Waugh" (if spoken with a non-rhotic accent); "marshal" and "George Marshall"; "chaplain" and "Charlie Chaplin". Personal names do, of course, generally start with a capital letter.

  5. Spell checker - Wikipedia

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    In software, a spell checker (or spelling checker or spell check) is a software feature that checks for misspellings in a text. Spell-checking features are often embedded in software or services, such as a word processor , email client , electronic dictionary , or search engine .

  6. Use spell check in AOL Mail

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    Don't worry about relying on your browser's spell check feature. With AOL Mail, click one button to check the entire contents of your email to ensure that everything is spelled correctly. In addition, you'll never need worry about typos or misspelled words again by enabling auto spell check.

  7. Googlewhack - Wikipedia

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    Participants at Googlewhack.com discovered the sporadic "cleaner girl" bug in Google's search algorithm where "results 1–1 of thousands" were returned for two relatively common words [4] such as Anxiousness Scheduler [5] or Italianate Tablesides. [6] Googlewhack went offline in November 2009 after Google stopped providing definition links.

  8. Recruiters Unveil 22 Red Flags From Resumes That Can ... - AOL

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    Still spelling engineer wrong after getting the degree. Seriously - google that or listen to the autocorrect. I know math is your thing - not spelling, but still...

  9. History of Google - Wikipedia

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    Page and Brin write in their first paper on PageRank: [20] "We chose our systems name, Google, because it is a common spelling of googol, or 10 100 and fits well with our goal of building very large-scale search engines." There are uses of the name going back at least as far as the creation of the comic strip character Barney Google in 1919.