stemming and punctuation

[europeforvisitors]

As I understand it, Google doesn't use "stemming." In other words, if I have a page that includes the words "European" and "widgetlike," Google won't extract the "Europe" and "widget" roots as keywords.

Question: How does punctuation affect this? I'm curious to know if Google recognizes all of the following character strings as the keyword widget:

widget
"widget"
'widget'
widget,
widget?
widget.
widget!
widget."

(and so on)

[Helpmebe1]

you frogot widget/ but i know on that they will recognize widget

[excell]

_widget
widget_

[excell]

maybe you also best add -widget
just did a check.. :)

[Helpmebe1]

wow more people from the other forum coming

[topr8]

widget' = widget

but not for

widget's

[excell]

Helpmebe1? was that off topic in this forum?

[edited by: excell at 5:45 pm (utc) on Nov. 1, 2002]

[excell]

hmm.. ok? is seen as a nothing

cool.. good one europeforvisitors

[Helpmebe1]

excell..it sure was..recognize your name from one of the "other" forums..along with thejenn and patrick and hmm.. thats all I can think of that recently came over here

Welcome aboard... just in case noone else got to say that yet! :)