eWhisper - 12:56 pm on Aug 11, 2004 (gmt 0)

All I'm noticing is that broad matching doesn't work as well as it used to.

I'm wondering if they tweaked the broad match algo again.

It seems that some of the issues with Broad Match Mystery [webmasterworld.com] have been fixed - but not all of them.

It almost seems like the 'common words' or & in trigger a look for regional targeting or set off a different algo search, as the results for 'blue widget xyze' are different than 'blue widget in xyze' (xyze is a nonsensical word just to test the search) for both phrase and broad matching.