How sensitive is search engine?

[michaeltaber]

How sensitive are the search engines to case, punctuation, wording, ect...

[rmasse10]

thats a good question...

[crrn]

I think every detail is important to them, but more important than puntuaction is the word content...maybe.

[loudog]

In what manner do you mean? Using punctuation in a search query definitely yields different result than the same query without the punctuation (in most cases).

[crrn]

Yes in a search query is sensitive, sorry I was talking about optimization...

[Eric Blackwell]

Hi crrn-

You are asking a theoretical, open ended question, so it is very hard to give you a specific answer. Is there a specific example that you are working on optimization wise?

Eric

[Susan Zanzonico]

I never thought about case or punctuation affecting the search engines. I would think wording has a huge affect.

[jihni]

I never thought about case or punctuation affecting the search engines. I would think wording has a huge affect.

Me too. I thought the emphasis is on the words used.