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More Searches Including Local/Travel Turning Case-Sensitive in Google
Searching News Source: http://www.naturalsearchblog.com
Story Found By: Silver 1500 Days ago
Category: Searching
Case-sensitive search results were first reported in the UK, but are now affecting US queries, including for local/travel keywords.
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from MaryBowling 1500 Days ago #
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My first reaction to this is that it may be relevancy-based and meant to help separate name and brand searches from other searches. Google interpreting intent - iif I search for something by name, I am more likely to capitalize it. What do you think?

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from CarrieHill 1500 Days ago #
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i would suspect that a majority of searchers are lazy and DONT use capitalization - I know I usually dont.

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from Silver 1500 Days ago #
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Mary, I really don’t believe it’s a relevancy improvement -- I think it’s an error. For some types of searches, there might indeed be a slight difference if upper versus lower is used, particularly in brandnames. But, what I’m seeing is all over the board in terms of when it is affecting rankings -- doesn’t appear to be tied to relevancy in my opinion.Carrie -- I agree with you -- I think the majority of searchers use all lower-case, or if they are AOL users, perhaps they’re in all upper-case {LOL!}.

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from CarrieHill 1500 Days ago #
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@Silver - my husband - a diehard internet novice and aol user - gets so mad when his password wont work because he has capslock on ;))

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