• Matt Cutts: Gadgets, Google, and SEO, Wednesday, May 13, 2009 3 PM

If you didn't get enough of Google's Searchology Tuesday, Matt Cutts provides some of the stuff you might have missed. Aside from the four new features, Pat Riley mentioned a couple of internal code names for spell check, such as "did you mean:" Or, "Spellmeleon" for when Google really thinks the user messed up the spelling.

Power searchers who really do want to search on "ipodd," for example, can query [+ipodd] with a '+' character in front of the word that you want to match exactly. Cutts writes that "Spellmeleon makes life *so* much better for my webspam team" because spammers target typos and misspelled queries. If users see a couple of valid results before they see results for a misspelled/typo query, they are exposed to a lot less webspam in Google.

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