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June 8, 2007

Using Caps in Google.com Site Command Returns Different Results

A WebmasterWorld thread notes that if you do a site command search using SITE: versus using site:, Google will return different results.

For example, lets compare site command results for the Search Engine Roundtable.

- site:www.seroundtable.com returns about 7,990 results.
- SITE:www.seroundtable.com returns about 148 results.

In the lowecase version, you see:
site-lower-ser-google.png

In the uppercase version, you see:
site-caps-ser-google.png

Notice how Google is finding results for the phrase "SITE:www.seroundtable.com" in our uppercase version. In contrast, in our lowercase version, Google is returning the number of pages they found indexed.

Why is there a difference? I am not sure.

Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.



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Posted by gabs at June 8, 2007 08:05

But I am not getting any results with capital commands.

 

Posted by Amit Verma at June 8, 2007 08:53

Just because it's the same search as [site + "www.seroundtable.com"] ...

 

Posted by TOMHTML at June 8, 2007 08:54

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