Why wouldn’t they use the same dictionary?

  • SzethFriendOfNimi@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    May have more resources but I suspect googles servers also have some fantastic caches of common misspelling based on what your locale is and what most people are searching for.

    A lot of that derived from aggregate data of searches that were more likely to be engaged with or lead to click through.

    That kind of data could be used on a phone if they wanted to download a large cache of it every so often but since it could be time and location dependent.

    Search: Olzempik

    • Right now… Olympics.

    • A few months from now and you’re in Washington state. Maybe you want Olympus?

    • Recent searches for diabetes… Ozempic?

    Some of that is just too hard to reasonable calculate and cache on a mobile device.

    • hoshikarakitaridia@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      I would add that it’s way more efficient because Google doesn’t have everyone using it mistyping all at once. So they can save up CPU cycles until they need them.