Google knows how to disregard patterns with spaces in between letters
By Benj Arriola - Posted on Thu Nov 23, 2006After taking a close look at the search terms used on how people get to my site. I noticed a word with spaces in between each letter. And I never type that way but I noticed this in my analytics software. To see how things work, I decided to test things further. So i searched on Google, Yahoo and MSN/Live ituloy angsulong but adding a space in between every character: i t u l o y a n g s u l o n g.
Notice the results below.
Ituloy AngSulong with spaces on MSN/Live
Ituloy AngSulong with spaces on Yahoo
Ituloy AngSulong with spaces on Google
Google actually knows the word is a word with spaces in between each letter. Even in the area that says Did you mean: also puts it’s suggested search term with spaces in between. Pushing the observation even a little bit further, check this out, instead of have 2 spaces in between Y and A, i made it only 1 space. So every letter is only 1 space apart. And the Google results changed.
The sites prioritized are now the sites with ituloyangsulong as one word as opposed to ituloy angsulong. Now just testing how smart Google is, I tried searching with two extra spaces in between each letter. And now it looks like Yahoo and MSN/Live.
So basically Google just takes out the spaces when there is a bunch of single letters with only 1 space in between. I am no search engine programmer, but that does not seem to be much of a hard patched for Yahoo and MSN/Live to implement. But I guess what is amazing about this study is, Google actually thought of implementing this. While Yahoo and MSN/Live has not.
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