# How can I use Google Search as my Spell checker in forms??

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [June 17, 2011, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-i-use-google-search-as-my-spell-checker-in-forms/585801 "2011-06-17T06:45:52Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 17, 2011, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-i-use-google-search-as-my-spell-checker-in-forms/585801/1 "2011-06-17T06:45:52Z")

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I am a very bad speller, google chrome usually tells me when I spell a word wrong the thing is sometimes when I right click on it the correct spelling is not there. But if I copy and paste the word into google it corrects it perfectly asking me “Did you mean:” How can I make chrome use google as a spell checker, I have looked for extensions and scripts to no avail, anyone have any ideas?

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**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\
**Post date:** [June 17, 2011, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-i-use-google-search-as-my-spell-checker-in-forms/585801/2 "2011-06-17T23:18:27Z")

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As far as I know, this isn’t possible due to the differing ways of how the systems work. Someone would likely have to modify Chrome itself–something I believe extensions can’t do at the moment.

And Google might not like the fact that you aren’t seeing any ads with each of those searches you are running.