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« on: November 12, 2004, 09:20:04 AM »
A useful journalistic tool...

http://www.namespellchecker.com/index.php

check it out
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« Reply #1 on: November 12, 2004, 09:25:05 AM »
????

I searched for "porter" and I got
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    * Name: SHRIVER, Maria (Schwarzenegger),
    * Title: California First Lady, Former NBC Reporter
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« Reply #2 on: November 13, 2004, 07:22:49 PM »
It's more along the lines of a journalism copy-editing tool.....
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« Reply #3 on: November 14, 2004, 12:20:10 AM »
Or it's still building its database -- it gave me "query failed" for both my first and (fairly common) last name.
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