SEO Tip #101: Does Google Recognize The Difference Between Different Meanings of A Word In A Query?

SEO Tip  #101: Does Google Recognize The Difference Between Different Meanings of A Word In A Query?

Matt Cutts: We relatively do a good job about that. If you only do the query “boxer” then we really don’t have any idea which one you mean for that particular query. But suppose you take “Sterling Silver” vs. “Stirling Engine” and you misspell both of those with ‘sturling’ we’ll correct ‘sturling engine’ with an ‘i’ and ‘sturling silver’ with an ‘e’. So we do look at context of queries to try
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SEO Tip #92: How Precise Is the Number of Results In A Site: Query?

SEO Tip #92: How Precise Is the Number of Results In A Site: Query?

Matt Cutts: That’s a fantastic question. Let me share a little bit of trivia that not many people realize; site: queries attempt to estimate how many pages are in our index but we would never claim it as an exact amount that is completely accurate. In fact let me just do a couple of queries and mention the number of results. Site:yahoo.com returns 138 million results and it says “about” 138
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