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malcolmcroucher

9:07 am on Jul 2, 2008 (gmt 0)

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Does google diferentiate between capital letters and non capital letters

e.g Widget or widget ?

Regards

Malcolm

Quadrille

7:27 pm on Jul 2, 2008 (gmt 0)

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Google doesn't.

But it can matter in URLs (depending on servers) - safest to use all lower case.

agerhart

7:28 pm on Jul 2, 2008 (gmt 0)

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>>>>Google doesn't.

There are cases where they DO serve different results and they've stated that they will serve different results for capital VS. lowercase when they deem it to have a factor in relevance.

SEOMike

7:28 pm on Jul 3, 2008 (gmt 0)

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I caught them a couple of months ago manipulating the results nearly live. A search for google produced the expected results. A search for Google had a wiki article at number 3. I mentioned it on here and within a few minutes that wiki listing was gone.

I still find evidence of different results depending on capitalization, but I've learned to keep my mouth shut ;)

Quadrille

7:54 am on Jul 4, 2008 (gmt 0)

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Well, I never heard that before! Apologies!

Anyone got any specific examples?