Google is case sensitive?

Here is something I noticed...

http://domain .com/star/Firstname_Lastname.htm... PR2
http://domain .com/star/firstname_lastname.htm... PR0

In Google Website Admin:

http://domain .com/star/Firstname_Lastname.htm...85 backlinks
http://domain .com/star/firstname_lastname.htm... 0 backlinks.

If I go to Google and type in:

http://domain .com/star/firstname_lastname.htm

The result shows:

http://domain .com/star/Firstname_Lastname.htm

Google is case sensitive?

JB

 

i dont agree with that . the urls that you mention must be the same . same pr and same value

 

i also don't agree .

and i think this is good way

http:// domain .com/star/firstname_lastname.htm

 

as fas as i know Google is Not case Sensitive

So it must have same PR and backlinks

 

not case sensitive, end of story.

 

http://www.google.com/help/basics.html

It's not.

 

hey guys,


http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=492497&messageID=2316985

on unix server, case sensitivity can be solved:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-9-52362-1

 

I think they take it all as lower case

 

No, google is not case sensitive.

 

i also dont think they are case-sensative

 

Back to the original question, URLs are case sensitive so of course Google looks at them separately for PR and backlink information.

 

i dont think URLs are the case sensitive. if you type ABC.com and abc.com or Abc.com it will still lead to the same site.

 

That's domain name, not file name. ABC.com is the same as abc.com, but abc.com/XYZ.html and abc.com/xyz.html are completely different.

 

here is googlebot checking my site




Why is the googlebot scanning Default.asp & default.asp (same file i'm on a Windows IIS Server). every day I see the same pattern.

I think Google is case sensitive.

 

Absolutely. Google does not botther.

 

google is case insensitive for search queries.. but the thing discussed here is whether it treats the URL's in the same way..

My view is its not. Google does not treat URL's in capitals and lowercase as same.

Here is some proof for it..

--http://www.www-loan.co.uk/Bad_credit_loan.html is having PR 3
Backlinks are 2 for same url..

Now try

--http://www.www-loan.co.uk/bad_credit_loan.html Its PR 0
backlinks - NONE

Any other doubts on the same?

 

I agree you can even check it with cache

http://209.85.135.104/search?q=cache:http://www.www-loan.co.uk/bad_credit_loan.html --> cache : http://www.www-loan.co.uk/bad_credit_loan.html

http://209.85.135.104/search?q=cache:http://www.www-loan.co.uk/Bad_credit_loan.html --> cache : http://www.www-loan.co.uk/Bad_credit_loan.html

Google is case sensitive for URL and case insensitive for search queries


Google must be case sensitive for crawling because Unix webservers are case sensitive.

 

I think that's pretty sad that over 56% of the answers this guy got are obviously clueless, and yet they all felt the need to respond as if they knew what was up.

Guys, hard facts are not majority rule. You can not change the way things work just by all agreeing on the wrong thing. I mean, sure, the guy thought it was a Google thing, when actually it is an internet thing, but still... you can tell from the answers none of y'all even looked... there was no investigation at all. You just took what sounded right to you and decided to throw in your opinions.

-Michael

 

The URLs are case-sensitive, ie.
domain.com/page1.htm is different then
domain.com/Page1.htm

It must be windows users who don't know filenames are case sensitive in other world!

But you can make changes to your .htaccess to make sure your url is not case sensitive which is a workaround, but in general, urls are case-sensitive.

 

The root domain name itself is not case sensitive, but after the / is because it reflects how you named the html page.