Quote from: EcuaMobi on March 05, 2015, 06:26:19 PM

shouldn't the search for first bits be case-insensitive?

I see 1GooCh gets a match but 1gooch doesn't.

I thought first bits was supposed to ignore the case.

Thanks for your feedback.

The search is case sensitive. It is just a matter of speed and good user experience: without case segregation, search would be slower and also it would give out a lot more results and take additional time to get every address details of the list. This is a trade-off between speed and usefulness, to stay really user-friendly. Also in everyday life, WORD is equivalent to word but in blockchain world 1goochainblaba is not the same address as 1GOOCHAINblabla.
We are actually working on a new firstbit internal engine that would be real-time, lower the amount limit, and ultimately work with any address in the blockchain. We are also working on a backend replacement so that it would be quicker to get address details. Depending on all our progress and results we would implement case-insensitive search for FirstBit feature.

Please additionally note, these days the real amount limit required is more at 0.04 than 0.02 btc announced (we haven't yet updated our description pages).