Comments on: Capitalization Does Affect Results When Searching Google

By: Andy Hughes

Andy Hughes — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 21:11:12 +0000

I’ve just been having a bit of a mare with capitals. Most places say thay caps don’t make any difference. Explain this then.

I search for “Conservatory Blinds” on google.co.uk both for web and uk only. The results show the Prestige Conservatory website at #9 and then if I search using “conservatory blinds” in the same search engine the results are around #38.

What’s going on? I thought capitals didn’t matter!

Andy

By: Tom

Tom — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 18:36:26 +0000

Thanks for the reply, Mike. That really is some good information.

I guess Google is just always tweaking their search algorithm to get better results. I’m just not sure what the case sensitivity has to do with it, though.

By: Mike H.

Mike H. — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 13:53:44 +0000

Nice post Tom! Search Engine Land just talked about this this morning, and they offer a few more details on the case sensitivity of Google’s search.

Also, an employee of Google admits that Google now does return different results depending on the case of the query submitted.

You can read it here: http://searchengineland.com/080620-081736.php