Google Is Case Sensitive

A few minutes ago, i was fighting with a friend about a page’s pagerank, he was seeing PR0 and me PR3. It seems the difference came from a letter in the link ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone vs. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iphone ), so it seems that Google is case sensitive so you should be careful when putting links directly to a page, because it may see two different pages.

via alex of devicepedia

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    sourcer January 12, 2007 at 8:39 am

    Maybe he was checking PR in other DCs, since the update is in progress :)

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    AgentFriday January 21, 2007 at 6:24 am

    It probably has more to do with Wikipedia being case sensitive (which I think is STUPID, if anyone cares…)

    Wikipedia has separate entries for each of the two links you sited, which is why Google had different ratings; they are two different pages. The “Iphone” entry just redirects to the “IPhone” page.

    Try funky case combinations to check for the ranking of other (non-case-sensitive) pages, I doubt you’ll see any difference. Or maybe you will…

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    Karaoke Kev January 24, 2007 at 11:05 pm

    Yes, this is well known. The PR of a particular URL also depends on whether you include the ‘www’ or ‘index.htm’ terms as well. If I exchange links I always specify the exact URL I want used.

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