Google Docs will start nudging some users to write less dumbly
by Jon Porter from The Verge - All Posts on (#5XQXX)
Users will have the option of turning the suggestions off. | Image: Google Google Docs could soon suggest ways to improve the quality of your writing in addition to fixing straightforward grammar and spelling errors, the company has announced. A purple squiggly line will appear under suggestions to help make your writing more concise, inclusive, active, or to warn you away from inappropriate words.
These new Google suggestions have long been available via third-party services like Grammarly, which is able to integrate with Google Docs and aims to help improve the quality of your writing. Depending on the quality of Google's native suggestions, it could vastly reduce the need for these third-party services. Does it count as sherlocking" when someone other than Apple does it?
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