This section is from the "55 Ways to Have Fun With Google" book, by Philipp Lenssen. Also available from Amazon: 55 Ways to Have Fun With Google
Almost every spelling error you can think of has indeed been made at one time or another. It's only that before Google came along, we never knew all the places the misspelling was made, and by whom. That's changed now; among the billions of pages indexed, every celebrity, title, phrase, and word exists in dozens of variants. To see for yourself, just enter a misspelled word and ignore Google's spelling suggestion for a moment (and if you want to limited your search to only a certain news source, use the "site" operator, e.g. site:cnn.com).
Here's a "best of spelling," courtesy of the Google search engine:
"The leader of the Sudan Peoples' Liberation
Movement/Army ... yesterday received a personal message from US
President George Hush Jr, according to the rebel
movement."
– Afrol News, November 2005
"This autumn, Britney Pears will launch her first
perfume to US ... composed of flowers and
vanilla."
– Toutenparfum.com News, August
2004
"At the current time, The MGM Grand does not have any
confirmed information regarding a April 6th performance starring
Paul McMartney."
– BeatleLinks Fab Forum,
February 2002
"The Iranians are under pressure and the North Koreans are in
disarray so in totality, the war on error it's been a
huge progress in the past 12 months."
– CNN.com
International Transcript, March 2004
"The weapons of mass distraction were not there and
that's when we asserted that those weapons where
there."
– CNN.com Transcript, Debate Over U.S. Bid
For International Involvment In Iraq, September 2003
"There is public opinion and there is is public
opinion. I'll give you my opinion. Michael Jacksin is
innocent."
– A Freudian slip? Michael Jackson Forum,
Santa Barbara, California, September 2004
"... Steven Speilberg ... Steven Spielburg ... Steven
Spielberger ..."
– Discussion thread on an
E.T. forum
"Favorite NFL Team: an Francisco
49ers"
– What's an Francisco? Sports
Illustrated
"‘Look at this Angelina Jolly,'
Bridget's mother says in one of the new columns, presenting her
as a role model."
–International Herald Tribune,
August 2005
"Microsoft is hoping to gain a foothold. Also,
Goggle's been there too, hoping to gain a foothold in the
lucrative search engine market."
– CNN Live Today,
Transcript, February 2005
"Margaret Mitchell was born in Atlanta, Georgia ... In 1922
she marred Berrien Upshaw"
– TeenReads.com,
Margaret Mitchell Biography, 2003
"If you don't know who Bruce Campbell is, you must have
been living under a rock! He's only the biggest B-Move
Actor ever"
– Judy's Books member reviews,
August 2005
"Who is the fynest male movie stair of
2003???"
– BestAndWorst.com Ballot
 
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