How many ways can you spell Charlottesville? At least 5.
I recently went to the search tags page to see how many companies are based in Charlottesville. I typed in “Char” and was surprised to see in my AJAXy search box that 5 suggestions for “Char” were entered. At first I thought it was a bug, but then I realized that indeed there were multiple misspellings for Charlottesville: Charlotesville, Charlotsville, Charlottesvile, and Charlotteville.
What is ironic is that this data was loaded from the data compiled as part of CBIC’s survey of high tech business in the Charlottesville area! Clearly whoever was supplying that data was hand entering it into the spreadsheet.
To help deal with bad tags like this, I have moved up to the main navigation a “Browse Tags” link that shows you all the tags, and reformatted the tag pages. By the time you read this, the various tags that should be part of Charlottesville should be!
Please feel free to login to the site with your OpenID and start cleaning some tags up!
