Comments on: Revisiting EXACT Search Shortcuts in Google http://irthoughts.wordpress.com/2007/07/24/revisiting-exact-search-shortcuts-in-google/ News, Papers, and Theses on Information Retrieval, Data Mining, and Search Engine Technologies. Fri, 25 Jul 2008 15:23:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU By: E. Garcia http://irthoughts.wordpress.com/2007/07/24/revisiting-exact-search-shortcuts-in-google/#comment-45 E. Garcia Wed, 25 Jul 2007 12:29:57 +0000 http://irthoughts.wordpress.com/2007/07/24/revisiting-exact-search-shortcuts-in-google/#comment-45 Certainly the aforementioned search counts vary with time; thus, totals today should be different from yesterday. Incidentally, yesterday it was reported by <a href="http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/dashes-vs-underscores/" rel="nofollow">Matt Cutts</a> that Google now treats underscores as hyphens. However, today we have: "car insurance" = 52,700,000 car-insurance" = 53,600,000 car_insurance = 123,000 car insurance = 179,000,000 If they did the change, the change either would only be pertinent to urls, than to answer sets per se or is not fully implemented for all type of searches. Certainly the aforementioned search counts vary with time; thus, totals today should be different from yesterday.

Incidentally, yesterday it was reported by Matt Cutts that Google now treats underscores as hyphens. However, today we have:

“car insurance” = 52,700,000
car-insurance” = 53,600,000
car_insurance = 123,000
car insurance = 179,000,000

If they did the change, the change either would only be pertinent to urls, than to answer sets per se or is not fully implemented for all type of searches.

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