Gigablast Adds Spelling Suggestions

Joining the other major search engines, Gigablast now has a spell checker which makes suggestions for correct (or just alternate) spellings of unusual query terms. Like most other search engines, these suggestions are displayed as "Did you mean. . .�"

Matt Wells also offers a fascinating exploration of the spelling suggestions at other search engines in his announcement. Searching 'dooty' at several search engines he found no consistency in suggestions:

• AlltheWeb - booty
• Altavista - dhooti
• Gigablast - door
• Google - doody
• MS Word - Doty
• Teoma - doty

And none gave what I would expect to be the obvious correction of 'duty!'

Sometime in the next year, Gigablast also plans to have hardware that can handle a 5 billion document database that can still serve hundreds of queries per second. And the add URL page is back up again.