Do hyphenated letter words pull up on search engines?

Remnant · May 12, 2003

Hi all,

Do domain names such as W-I-N.com pull up on search engines as "win"?

Thanks,
Remn

Mr Webname · May 12, 2003

My testing shows that hyphenated and non-hyphenated same words bring up exactly the same - in other words the hyphen appears to be "invisible" to search engines.

CoolHost.com · May 12, 2003

I believe it depends on the search engine.
Good Luck.

windows22 · May 12, 2003

it turns up as "W I N", hyphen counts as space in most of the engines

options · May 12, 2003

In google it is the same as "WIN". As long as you have ALL letters separated by hyphen it is recognized as a single word.
However if you concatenate more letters you get totally different results up to the last hyphen and after that.
E.g. "h-u-n-d-r-e-d"="hundred"; but "h-u-n-d-red" ="hund red", or "h-u-n-dr-ed"="hun dr ed", etc.
You can also fake url results by putting exact terms into directories such as "dsffergd.com/WIN/" or making subdomains like WIN.dsffergd.com.

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