John L wrote:
I disagree that this argument is absurd. They are helping you correct your typing mistakes, and the fee is not charged to you, but if it is a paid link, paid by the advertiser, which the owner gets a very small portion. The more popular the site, the more spelling mistakes will occur.
This only corrects spelling for sites that are willing to pay for traffic, and in cases where there are multiple sites lexically nearby, you get the one that pays the most. Maybe I'm old fashioned, but I don't find any value in selling my eyeballs like that, and there are plenty of useful sites that don't pay for traffic at all. Look at my www.abuse.net, for example, with a budget of $0.
I'm old-fashioned, like John, and generally speaking I mistrust help unasked for. This "spellcheck service" reminds me of some places where if you ask the directions for a restaurant or a hotel, showing a piece of paper with the name and address of it, the answer is that they don't know such a place, but they can show you what is for sure the best restaurant and/or hotel in town... Nothing ethically wrong, but please don't sell what is purely a lucrative activity as a supposed service. Secondly, what's wrong with the good old 404? I'm told that the url does not exist, I double check, and hopefully get it right. Without having downloaded tons of useless bytes (in most parts of the world at a cost for me). And it works also for email addresses. Cheers, Roberto