Now All Engines Treat Underscores as Word Separators

[LowryBigwood]

Originally Posted by Simon

This makes me wonder how the SERPs will be affected considering the millions of pages which use underscores instead of hyphens, I mean the page that are already spidered and indexed. Will those pages now start ranking for the individual words? Seems that we'll be seeing a huge change in search results if that's the case.

This is just my opinion and is a guess. I would imagine that by the time we get wind of the change, it has already been implemented. I wouldn't expect to see any changes because of that now. Could be wrong though.