{"id":2335,"date":"2016-03-21T13:00:59","date_gmt":"2016-03-21T13:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/french.kwiziq.com\/blog\/?p=2335"},"modified":"2016-03-20T08:54:53","modified_gmt":"2016-03-20T08:54:53","slug":"check-french-search-engines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/french.kwiziq.com\/blog\/check-french-search-engines\/","title":{"rendered":"Check your French with search engines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/search-engines-as-grammar-checkers\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/files\/french\/blog\/2016\/03\/google2.png\" alt=\"Google\" border=\"0\" width=\"257\" height=\"149\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2336\" srcset=\"\/files\/french\/blog\/2016\/03\/google2.png 257w, \/files\/french\/blog\/2016\/03\/google2-240x139.png 240w, \/files\/french\/blog\/2016\/03\/google2-160x93.png 160w, \/files\/french\/blog\/2016\/03\/google2-80x46.png 80w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 257px) 100vw, 257px\" \/><\/a>When you&#8217;re not sure about your French phrasing, a <a href=\"\/search-engines-as-grammar-checkers\">search engine<\/a> can be a quick and dirty tool for getting a sense of whether you&#8217;re on the right track.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not foolproof by any means, but if you search for a short phrase and find fewer than 100 results, it&#8217;s a pretty good bet that either you&#8217;ve invented a completely new concept or that your French is wrong.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, if you find hundreds of thousands of results, your phrase is potentially correct &#8211; but be careful! <strong><a href=\"\/search-engines-as-grammar-checkers\">There are some caveats.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"kwiz-app\"\n\t\t\t\t\tdata-url=\"https:\/\/french.kwiziq.com\/api\"\n\t\t\t\t\tdata-title=\"Test your French against the CEFR standard\"\n\t\t\t\t\tdata-return-url=\"https:\/\/french.kwiziq.com\/blog\/check-french-search-engines\/\"\n\t\t\t\t\tdata-return-title=\"Check your French with search engines\"\n\t\t\t\t\tdata-questionspercomp=\"\"\n\t\t\t\t\tdata-token=\"\"\n\t\t\t\t\tdata-template=\"\"\n\t\t\t\t\tdata-kwizkey=\"sorter\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you&#8217;re not sure about your French phrasing, a search engine can be a quick and dirty tool for getting a sense of whether you&#8217;re on the right track. 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