Why wouldn’t they use the same dictionary?
The google servers have access to a lot more resources than our puny little phones.
Why is it that when I write on Googles keyboard on my phone and misspell something it has no idea what I am trying to write but if I Google the same word it knows instantly what the word is?
Submitted 3 months ago by Fisk400@feddit.nu to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
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Kelly@lemmy.world 3 months ago
vk6flab@lemmy.radio 3 months ago
Whilst technically true, consider just how many CPU cycles Google wants to spend on your search query. In reality, as little as possible.
I’d be pretty comfortable in guestimating that the resources on your phone vastly exceed that.
Source: I write software for a living.
SzethFriendOfNimi@lemmy.world 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.
Olzempik
Right now… Olympics.
A few months from now… 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.
RadicallyBland@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Autocorrect has gotten worse and worse. I can transpose two letters and it won’t suggest the right word, but it’ll suggest the right word with an apostrophe and an S that makes no sense. It’s not wonder so many people think plurals need apos’trophe’s.
CrimeDad@lemmy.crimedad.work 3 months ago
Google Keyboard usually gets its/it’s wrong for me, but somehow it always gets bourgeoisie right.
EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
It’s confirmed: Google Keyboard is sentient and it’s a socialist!
FOR THE PEOPLE!!!
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
You may be onto something: mine gets ‘enshittification’ like a badass.
gedaliyah@lemmy.world 3 months ago
billbasher@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Get one with a swiping feature (not sure if yours has it already). They are way more accurate with autocorrect. I think I used SwiftKey when I was on Android
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
The standard Google keyboard has a good swipe, but sometimes needs to be activated.
It’s WAY better to swipe on the Google keyboard vs pecking at it.
ProIsh@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Good place to ask I guess.
Does anyone have a keyboard or text app they think nails this? Android I’d love to check it out. Don’t mind if it’s a cost but I don’t want a subscription for my text app
bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
It’s a calculated scheme to get you to do a search for “aniprrsperient” so they can sell you deodorant
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 3 months ago
I wanna know why it corrects anything at all when I turned autocorrect off. Most of what it “corrects” was already correct, and the correction changed it to a different spelling or to a word that makes no sense in context. Like it always corrects “its” to “it’s” even when correctly using the possessive form.
morphballganon@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Time to download a 3rd party keyboard my friend
MindTraveller@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
I have a Pixel and mine doesn’t do that. It’s probably your phone’s manufacturer messing with the autocorrect
Fisk400@feddit.nu 3 months ago
I have pixel and it does that.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 3 months ago
I am use a Pixel 8. It’s the app, not the hardware.
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
I get the its->it’s correction too; three times writing this so far.
Mine is it corrects ‘to’ to ‘Tom’. I don’t Know a Tom. Very stressing when I don’t catch it!
KillingAndKindess@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
Google is shit, AnySoftKeyboard is what I use.