Google having problems with two words again

Anyone else noticing this?

[Chris_R]

High quality sites that HAPPEN to have two words in it are coming up higher in the SERPS than they used to - anyone else noticing this?

I am noting it for a couple terms I can't post here, but the problem is this.

Let us say you want a page on "dark widgets" - you might end up getting a page that has to do with widgets, but at the bottom - it will say somethink like:

dark times have fallen on widget makers.

The page has nothing to do with dark widgets - just happens to have both words on the page.

This was in force VERY strongly for a certain two word adult term that I guarantee the white house and others wouldn't have wanted to come up for, but it happened that way a few months a go.

It is no where near as strong as this, but I am noticing it for a few terms.

Anyone else?

p.s. It is a pretty minor "problem" - just find it amusing when I see it.

[ogletree]

The thing I hate the most is when you type in dark widgets and the top site is a site about dark and does not have the word widgets anywhere in the title or snippet but might be burried somewhere on the page. The only reason they are number one is they are a PR7. Google should have 2 word phrases be the same thing as "two words" I understand that it should not be that way for 3 or more but if you type in 2 words more than likely you want those 2 words together. They should have the algo pay attention to what people are doing. If a site is on the first 4 results for a particuler search and is never clicked on or less than 5% of the time or something like that then it should be banned from that SERP. That would clean up things a ton.

[willybfriendly]

Google should have 2 word phrases be the same thing as "two words" I understand that it should not be that way for 3 or more but if you type in 2 words more than likely you want those 2 words together.

Not always. Consider the average person looking for a local source of widgets. First they enter 'widget' and then, being overwhelmed with 2 million results go back up and enter 'slobovia' after the 'widget' Now we have 'widget slobovia' which is going to show up on very few pages.

Geographic area is often seperated from the subject/product, sometimes only appearing in a footer on a page.

WBF

[ciml]

I have the impression that a page with lots of links to it from other sites with blue or widget in the anchor text will rank beter for blue lemons or pink widgets than in the past, even though the extra words are just mentioned in the page somewhere.

[GranPops]

Ciml 'tis true

Have a page that is #1 against 120,000 for a two word phrase, one word of which does not exist on the page.