Are search engines case sensitive?

Discussion in 'Google' started by naif, Sep 25, 2008.

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  2. mbshinde78

    mbshinde78 Peon

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    Simple Answer is : Yes

    Why would a search engine be case sensitive? What's the purpose?

    Search engine focuses on the words and sentences rather than how it is written (small case, upper case etc.)

    This is what I have seen by far.
     
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  3. naif

    naif Well-Known Member

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    @mbshinde78

    I was thinking no. I think search engines treat the case of a URL differently. I'll show you an example

    http://www.dhonixpress.com/biography/ - The page has a PR of 2.

    Where as http://www.dhonixpress.com/Biography/ has no PR.

    Doesn't this suggest search engines treat them differently?

    I am working on a site right now and this is going to be really important

    Regards,
    -- Naif
     
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    sweetfunny Banned

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    Yes URL's are case sensitive, but domains themselves are not.

    Also yes, different searches in caps/no caps on Google can show different results.
     
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    Perfect answer, however the difference in the search results using caps/no caps is not that huge in most cases.
     
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    urls are case sensitive. so it is no
     
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    Different casing returns different SERPS
     
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