Jun

10

Google Search: site: vs. SITE: searches

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There’s a thread in the Google Search Forum that is featured on the homepage of WebmasterWorld noticing that there’s a difference between using the site: operator in upper or lower case.

 Google site: vs SITE:

The difference between the two is that lower case indicates a special operator for Google search, and upper case indicates the query mode, i.e.

FINDALL is equivalent to term1 AND term2 and is the usual search default. The engine retrieves documents that contain both terms, not necessarily in exact proximity or order.

OR means that the engine will retrieve documents that contain either of the terms, as in term1 OR term2, not necessarily both terms.

Using quotes for “term1 term2″ indicates using EXACT MATCH, meaning documents will be retrieved that contain both term1 and term2 in that exact order.

Again, many thanks to Dr. Edel Garcia for his kindness and dedication in pursuing his mission to dispel SEO myths and confusion and educate webmasters on how search works. Here is one of his many references that explain search query modes.

 

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