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Archive for January, 2009

Map View on Google Maps

Friday, January 16th, 2009

We have now moved out of static maps. You can now see the route map on more interactive Google maps. You can zoom in (and zoom out) to see more (and less) details.

Following is a sample of a route on Google maps.

Map View 1

Map View 1

You can click on the markers on the line to see the details of that station/airport.

Map View 2

Map View 2

Spelling Mishtakes on a lovely friday morning

Friday, January 16th, 2009

We’ve seen that users when typing a query in free text search interface make quite a few spelling mistakes.

The poor engine at 90di still always tries and makes sense out of it. And you would love to know that in most cases it does not do too bad!

Lets look at some common and some comic spelling mistakes:

1) A genuine misspell of one letter (most common occurrences).
Particularly happens if an over-worked guy on a late Thursday evening, is trying to book a ticket to Hyderabad in a hurry.

Bangaloer to Hyderabda

This one is piece of cake :-) for the engine to understand. Verify it for yourself:
Bangaloer to Hyderabda

2) The second kind of query happens when some body is trying to get naughty with the system:

Bangalur to Hderbd

Looks like the engine can understand this also quite okay:
Bangalur to Hderbd

3) Now we have somebody who has learned to type only on her mobiles ;-)

bnglr to hydrbd

Well, we don’t do too bad here either. Don’t believe it? See it for yourself:
bnglr to hydrbd

We invite you to try out some more funny spelling mistakes and provide us with your in-valve-able (oops invaluable) feedback.