Google Uses The Underscore Now
Google will start allowing the underscore as a word separator in their search engine algorithm, making life much easier for Wordpress (and Movable Type) users.
In a speech delivered at WordCamp 2007, an event dedicated to WordPress users and developers, Matt Cutts spoke at a much attended session and shared these remarks:
One key development that Matt shared with the audience was that underscores in URLs are now (or at least very soon to be) treated as word separators by Google. That’s great news, because it historically hasn’t been that way. Back in 2005, Matt stated that Google did not view underscores in URLs as word separators.
This change makes sense for Google as it will make Google Blogsearch even more effective. On other notes, he stated that ?= querystring values won’t hurt a url, but a site should not have more than a few = signs in the url.
Another interesting comment is that a blog needs to have multiple authors to get into Google News. The mood was light, Matt Cutts appeared to be in a good mood and several blog writers mentioned their surprise at how funny Matt Cutts is.
Funny or not, his session provided several new items about the Google Algorithm and showed once again that Google will continue to optimize it algorithm with the goal of delivering the best results to its loyal users.
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