Upper case dir name

Now causes my page to be listed twice in SERPs

[SEOgle]

I noticed something strange that just started today.

A few of our pages are in separate directories that call up the default page (default.asp). The person that originally developed the site used upper case for the directory as follows:

mydomain.com/widgets/GREENWIDGETS

Just today for several of the pages I see that the first result is:

mydomain.com/widgets/GREENWIDGETS

and now I get a second result below it:

mydomain.com/widgets/greenwidgets

Is this a new glitch and/or will Google eventually figure out it is the same page? There was really no good reason to have the upper case so I changed them all today to lower case, but would still like some input on this if anyone can chime in.

Patrick

[Thanasus]

Path names are case sensitive on non-Windows servers. So most certainly an engine will store full URLs in a case sensitive manner, though they probably convert domain names to lower case. Can it result in duplicate entries? Sure but that is why google has the PR0 for duplicates so they don't pollute the result set.

[takagi]

Just make sure you are consistent in your links, and in time the old one's will disappear from Google's SERP (unless you have inbound links to your sub pages).

[takagi]

Just make sure you are consistent in your links, and in time the old one's will disappear from Google's SERP (unless you have inbound links to your sub pages).

[g1smd]

Domain names are not case sensitive, and folder names usually are case sensitive.

[Neo541]

It's even worse when you switch from a Windows Server. I, of course, had never used anything else, and didn't realize that the new one was case sensitive. All over my site, I had links, some capitalizing the first letter of each word, some all lower case...We also kind of encouraged deep linking, so we had people linking to our site with various stages of capitalization. So, quite a few polite emails and some 301's later, everything's sweet!

Lesson: Even on Windows servers, make sure your file names are all the same, in case you do ever switch.