What is the difference in searching "austin real estate" vs. austin+real+estate? I thought both would return the same results and they do not.

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Sam Chapman
Austin, Texas
Austin, TX Real Estate |Austin Luxury Homes |Austin Real Estate Blog

Hi Sam, I did a search on google and it pretty much gave me the same results. I tried with different cities as well.

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Tampa Bay Florida Real Estate | Tampa MLS | Northern Virginia Real Estate

Sam,

I would guess that you hit different data centers. Different data centers often have slighly different search results.

Take a look at the URL when you search for Austin real estate -

google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T5GGLL_enUS267US267&q=austin+real+estate

"austin real estate" & austin+real+estate is the same search

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John Allen
Realtor®/Broker
Allen Real Estate Services, Inc.
Sarasota, Florida
Representing buyers and sellers of fine Sarasota real estate.

So these searches do the exact same thing? I thought they did, but I would like confirmation.

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Sam Chapman
Austin, Texas
Austin, TX Real Estate |Austin Luxury Homes |Austin Real Estate Blog

Same results when I do it

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Susan Zanzonico
Morristown NJ Real Estate
Chatham NJ Real Estate
Summit NJ Real Estate
Weichert, Realtors
Morris, Union and Essex County NJ Real Estate

I get different results sometimes when I capitolize the city and states first letter than when I search with them in lower case.

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Dylan Darling
Search for Bend Oregon real estate. | Bend real estate blog |Bend OR homes for sale.

"austin real estate"
To search for a phrase, a proper name, or a set of words in a specific order, put them in double quotes.
http://www.googleguide.com/quoted_phrases.html

austin+real+estate
Force Google to include a term by preceding the term with a “+” sign.
http://www.googleguide.com/plus_operator.html

The difference is the quoted phrase will give you a search result with the exact phrase austin real estate Google will consider that as one word while with the + operator it will show results with the word austin,real and estate.

Though originally the + operator are used for Google's stop words.

Stop Words
Words that are ignored by Google

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Free real estates listing in Australia

I tried it, and I got the same results for both searches.
Do you know what site you were searching on or what search engine it was?
That may be the reason you got different results.

Hope i was helpful,
John