Matt Cutts Wanted Google To Treat URL Underscores As Separators

Dec 1, 2017 - 7:50 am 4 by

Google Underscores Garage Door

Last night, former Google executive said on Twitter that he tried to get the Google engineers to treat underscores in the URLs as separators, just like how they used hyphens as separators in the URLs. He said it never happened, at least while he was at the company.

This goes back to when in 2007 Matt Cutts posted on his blog about underscores vs hyphens, which of course we covered as did many other SEO blogs at that time. Now, Google says they don't care - there is no difference, but I am not sure if that is 100% true or not.

That all being said, if you want to go back in histroy, check out this tweet from Anil Dash:

Make me feel like the past 14 or so years have been a waste here. :)

Forum discussion at Twitter.

 

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