Google no longer searching for all words in query?

No more kw+kw+kw by default?

[Stefan]

I'm finding searches for kw1 kw2 kw3 in Google giving me results that only have kw1 kw3. I first noticed it on my site then noticed it in others. It looks to me that it's happy now with just some of the searchwords showing on the page while before they all had to be there. Did I miss some change a while ago?

Added: Not just missing the common words like "the" and "of" as it always did. kw1 kw2 kw3 searches are giving me serp's with only a couple of the kw's to be found anywhere on the page.

[edited by: Stefan at 2:08 am (utc) on May 29, 2003]

[Brett_Tabke]

It could also be that the word is in links pointing at the page.

[WebMistress]

I'm not seeing that in my category. I put in blue green widgets (hypothetically) and got only sites with all 3 words at the top? You're not seeing that?

[Stefan]

K, Brett, that might be it. It's the first I noticed it... found it surprising.