Now All Engines Treat Underscores as Word Separators

[eman]

Logic would seem to dictate that pages titled (say) dildo_sex will now score equally alongside dildo-sex.

Gossamer threads users will be pleased.

[Halfdeck]

Call me lazy for trusting what I read:

Matt Cutts:

If you read Stephan Spencer’s write-up, he says that underscores are the same as dashes to Google now, and I didn’t quite say that in the talk. I said that we had someone looking at that now. So I wouldn’t consider it a completely done deal at this point. But note that I also said if you’d already made your site with underscores, it probably wasn’t worth trying to migrate all your urls over to dashes. If you’re starting fresh, I’d still pick dashes.

[ronnie]

Originally Posted by Halfdeck

Call me lazy for trusting what I read:

Matt Cutts:

Or they just like fucking with people.

[Halfdeck]

Or they just like fucking with people.

Nah, it was an honest mistake.

Barry told me he got his info from news.com, which he believed was a reliable source. He said he also emailed Matt Cutts about it, but I guess Matt took his time replying to that email.