Miss Spelling in Online Articles; Where Do We Draw the Line?

Did you know that some online article writers purposefully miss spell words to get more traffic from those who make mistakes when typing into search engines what they are looking for? To combat this technique of; Gaming The Search Engines; some online article submission websites are now disallowing miss spelled words. Good you think?

Indeed it is good to get rid of the problem like that right? Well yes and no, you see such a policy must be better thought through really. What about words, which are compound words or have alternate spellings or spellings, which are correct in everyday speech but in correct in a spell check feature?

So with this example where do you draw the lines? NanoTech, NanoTube, Behaviour. How about Hurricane Names? Gama, Catrina, etc. So, is that over the line? Or are you assisting people in getting to where they really want to go today? This petty crap about quality control is silly. It is more like “mind control” and social engineering to make everything and everyone the same. Plus there are new words being created every day by Instant Messengers too. Industries create words. I create words too, that better describe things I am discussing. Consider this argument and think on this in 2006.

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