Google adds AI-powered grammar checker to English-language search
Google has recently incorporated a grammar-checking feature into its search service, judiciously offering users accurate suggestions. This function had previously been made available in services like Gmail, clearly reflecting Google’s aspiration to facilitate users’ precise content searches. It also enhances Google’s ability to discern the users’ true search intentions.
From the perspective of the vast majority of user actions, most searches are conducted by combining different keywords separated by spaces. However, Google evidently prefers users to utilize complete interrogative sentences for searching, such as “What is the weather like today?” or “What are the attractions in San Francisco?” These queries, with their explicit purposes, stand in contrast to the use of single or multiple keywords, which merely guess at the users’ search objectives.
Therefore, when users input a complete interrogative sentence in the search field, the grammatical correctness of the presentation becomes vital. Otherwise, the search system might dissect the query into various keywords, leading to results that may diverge from the anticipated content.
Google’s newly added grammar check function in its search service operates principally when users input a complete question. By additionally incorporating “grammar check” or “check grammar” into the search, the system can ascertain whether the users’ input is grammatically correct, and subsequently provide prompts with the grammatically accurate content that the user can copy and use.
This feature functions through artificial intelligence and, as such, might still encounter erroneous judgments. Additionally, if users input content involving danger, harassment, hate, medical issues, explicit sexuality, terrorism, violence, gore, or vulgar and indecent language, the grammar check function will not be activated.
Currently, the grammar check function is limited to English content only, although there may be a gradual expansion to accommodate more languages in the future.
